Rev. ed. of: Physical cosmology and philosophy. c1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359).
Contents:
Toward infinity : the far future / Martin Rees. Modern cosmology / George Gamow -- Relativistic theories of the universe / W.B. Bonnor -- Steady-state theory of the universe / H. Bondi -- 13,000,000,000 year bang / Martin Rees -- Was there a big bang? / Jayant Narlikar -- Pseudo-problem of creation in physical cosmology / Adolf Grünbaum -- Cosmology and verifiability / G.F.R. Ellis -- Dirac's cosmology and Mach's principle / R.H. Dicke -- Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle in cosmology / Brandon Carter -- On the origin, evolution and the purpose of the physical universe / B.J. Carr -- Argument from the fine-tuning of the universe / Richard Swinburne -- Cozy cosmology / Heinz R. Pagels -- Mind and supermind / Stephen Jay Gould -- Cosmological fecundity : theories of multiple universes / George Gale -- Beyond the end of time / John Archibald Wheeler -- Is the universe a vacuum fluctuation / Edward P. Tryon -- What caused the big bang? / Paul Davies -- Universe : inflation out of chaos / Andrei Linde -- Possible forms of life in environments very different from the Earth / Robert Shapiro, Gerald Feinberg -- Atmospheric evolution, the Drake equation, and DNA : sparse life in an infinite universe / Michael H. Hart -- Emerging questions and uncertainties / G.F.R. Ellis -- Anthropic principle today / John Leslie -- Our place in the universe / Paul Davies -- "What place, then, for a creator?" : Hawking on God and creation / William Lane Craig -- Toward infinity : the far future / Martin Rees.
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