The Fifth Miracle
The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life (1st ed.)
Paul Davies
luotu 10.12.2022 klo 17:55
Sivuja: 304
Kustantaja: Simon & Schuster, 2000
ISBN-13: 9780684863092
ISBN-10: 068486309X
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Kirjan takakannesta:
Are We Alone in the Universe?
In this provocative and far-reaching book, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries — the origin of life.
Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled earth. It was warm and wet and could have supported primitive organisms. If life once existed on Mars, might it have originated there and traveled to earth inside meteorites blasted into space by cosmic impacts?
Davies builds on recent scientific discoveries and theories to address larger questions of existence: What, exactly, is life? Is it the inevitable by-product of physical laws, as many scientists maintain, or an almost miraculous accident? Are we alone in the universe, or will life emerge on all earthlike planets? And if there is life elsewhere in the universe, is it preordained to evolve toward greater complexity and intelligence?
Through his search for answers to these questions, Davies explores the ultimate mystery of mankind's existence — who we are and what our place might be in the unfolding drama of the cosmos.
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Brittiläissyntyinen Paul Davies on kansainvälisesti tunnettu fyysikko, tietokirjailija ja professori (Arizona State University). Hän tutkii teoreettista fysiikkaa, kosmologiaa ja astrobiologiaa.
