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  <title><![CDATA[The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford Paperbacks)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Is there any connection between the vastness of the universes of stars and galaxies and the existence of life on a small planet out in the suburbs of the Milky Way? This book shows that there is. In their classic work, John Barrow and Frank Tipler examine the question of Mankind's place in the Universe, taking the reader on a tour of many scientific disciplines and offering fascinating insights into issues such as the nature of life, the serach for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the past history and fate of our universe.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mind meltingly scientific and bigger picture generalizations at the same time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although published in 1988, this is still the authoritative source on the intriguing question of whether (or why) the universe is &quot;special&quot; for us, in the sense of the &quot;anthropic principle&quot; -- i.e., we should not be surprised that the universe (and our corner of it) has the prope...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32548502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tremendous insight into the age of the universe needed to make us, information processing machines, happen and consider the why-questions and the age of the universe or its ten trillion light years width. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one of those I read when I was in my &quot;cosmology&quot; phase. I had no grasp of the scientific equations but I think I emerged with some understanding of the weak and strong anthropic principle. ]]></body>
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