In the Beginning: The Birth of the Living Universe (Penguin science)

by JohnGribbin (Author)

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  1994

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  Ripples in space collected by the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite in 1992 clearly confirmed current ideas about the Big Bang. But why do matter and nature's fundamental forces seem specially designed to produce our kind of universe? Some scientists see the hand of God, others call this a non-question, but Gribbin suggests a new answer. Going far beyond the Gaia hypothesis, that the Earth is a single living organism, he claims that galaxies may operate as supernova nurseries , that one universe can bud from star-death and black hole bounce into another, and that such offspring are being steadily refined by evolution.

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  1993

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  Drawing on the latest measurements of the ripples in time that mark the birth of the universe, the author of this book goes beyond the Big Bang to address the questions of how and why the universe came into being, and what its future and evolution holds in store. His controversial contention is that the universe itself can be regarded as a living entity which is not unique, but has evolved through Darwinian selection among a multitude of rival universes competing for existence in spacetime.