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Signatures of the Artist - The Vital Imperfections That Make Our Universe Habitable (Hardcover)
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Signatures of the Artist - The Vital Imperfections That Make Our Universe Habitable (Hardcover)
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How does the scientific enterprise really work to illuminate the
origins of life and the universe itself? The quest to understand
our universe, how it may have originated and evolved, and
especially the conditions that allow it to support the existence of
life forms, has been a central theme in religion for millennia and
in science for centuries. In the past half-century, in particular,
enormous progress in particle and nuclear physics and cosmology has
clarified the essential role of imperfections - deviations from
perfect symmetry or homogeneity or predictability - in establishing
conditions that allow for structure in the universe that can
support the development of life. Many of these deviations are tiny
and seem mysteriously fine-tuned to allow for life. The goal of
this book is to review the recent and ongoing scientific research
exploring these imperfections, in a broad-ranging, non-mathematical
approach with an emphasis on the intricate tapestry of elegant
experiments that bear on the conditions for habitability in our
universe. This book makes clear what we know and how we know it, as
distinct from what we speculate and how we might test it. At the
same time, it attempts to convey a sense of wonderment at the
tuning of these imperfections and of the rapid rate at which the
boundary between knowledge and speculation is currently shifting.
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