From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Aug 31 2003 - 23:57:09 MDT
This book looks interesting and I am wondering if somebody has already read
it in hardcover?
Book Review listed Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930722222/ref=br_books_nn/002-8624483-
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Science has yet to find a way of knowing what, if anything, existed before
the Big Bang that created our universe. Further, how can we account for physical
laws that are so finely tuned for the creation of carbon-based life? Science
writer and amateur cosmologist Gardner proposes a startling theory: that a
pre-existing superintelligent race that inhabited a "mother universe" created
this one and tweaked the physical laws in its baby universe to ensure the
continuity of intelligent life and of the cosmos itself; this universe, then, will
foster the growth of a new superintelligence eons from now with complete command
over the laws of nature and the ability to create yet more universes with
inheritable characteristics. Thus, Gardner argues, our universe is a "Selfish
Biocosm" that created intelligent life to ensure its own survival. Gardner
marshals cutting-edge thinking in cosmology, string theory and the associated M
theory, and complexity theory to support his ideas. Readers may want to jump to
chapter 15 for a full statement of his theory, since the pr‚cis in his
introduction is vague; still, this is not for casual readers of popular science. If one
doesn't favor an explanation for the creation of life that involves a deity
of some sort, then Gardner's theory seems a plausible alternative, though some
readers may feel that speculating on superintelligences in pre-existing
universes may be akin to Darwin's proverbial dog speculating on the mind of Newton.
8-page color insert not seen by PW. >>
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Paperback: 344 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x 8.96 x 7.08
Publisher: Inner Ocean Publishing; (September 2003)
ISBN: 1930722222 >>
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