Ultimate Explanations of the Universe
We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more imp...
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Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02103-9 |
Table of Contents:
- Ultimate explanations
- PART I - MODELS
- The problem with an eternal universe
- The cyclical Universe
- The entangled Cosmos
- Continuous creation versus beginning
- Something out of (almost) nothing
- Quantum creation of the Universe
- PART II - ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES AND OTHER UNIVERSES
- Anthropic principles
- Natural selection of universes
- Anthopic principles and theories of everything
- The metaphysics of anthropic principles
- Tegmarks embarrassment
- PART III - CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
- The urge to understand
- Metaphysics and theology of creation
- Creation versus the perpetual Universe
- Disputing Gods omnipotence
- Newtons world
- Leibniz world
- The initial singularity and the creation of the Universe
- Creation and evolution
- Leibniz question.