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The constants of nature : from Alpha to Omega--the numbers that encode the deepest secrets of the universe
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- Creator
- John D. Barrow
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First American edition
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780375422218, 0375422218
- OCLC
- ocm50028687
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-342) and index.
- Before the beginning -- Journey towards ultimate reality -- Superhuman standards -- Further, deeper, fewer: the quest for a theory of everything -- Eddington's unfinished symphony -- Mystery of the very large numbers -- Biology and the stars -- Anthropic principle -- Altering constants and rewriting history -- New dimensions -- Variations on a constant theme -- Reach for the sky -- Other worlds and big questions