Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

Paul Davies, author of The Goldilocks Engima, asks is there more than one universe? Is the tract of spacetime that we inhabit just one of an infinite stream of universes, all with different physical properties, some of which might support life, but not as we know it, and others that are barren and fleeting? Are we, so to speak, just one volume in an infinite library? This is the multiverse theory of creation: in an infinite set of universes, anything can happen, including John Milton and Paris Hilton.

These are a few of the enigmas Davies, a theoretical physicist who has turned to the new science of astrobiology, ponders in this timely and important new book. Tim Radford, of The Guardian of London, marvels at The Goldilocks Enigma, Davies's discourse on the fundamental forces that gave rise to the universe and to life in his review in the link below.

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