Titlebook: Ultimate Explanations of the Universe; Michael Heller Book 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 Anthropic principle.Cosmology and C

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The Quantum Creation of the Universebloating up the size of the universe. That little “something” which triggers inflation calls for an explanation as well. But the inflationary mechanisms have drawn our attention to the vacuum problem. The quantum vacuum with which contemporary physics is concerned is not the metaphysical nothingness

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Natural Selection in the Population of Universesnthropic principles. However, soon it started to appear in other contexts, and even developed a quantitative approach. This was true of the chaotic cosmology proposed by Linde, who constructed an inflationary cosmological model that led in a natural way to the “continual production of universes” (se

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The Anthropic Principles and Theories of Everythingid demarcation between the “sublunary world” and the “supralunary world.” The former was the domain of a physics of changeability and destruction; in the latter eternal motion about circular paths were proceeding with neither loss nor expenditure. The work of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo shook thi

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The Drive to Understandistent urge to tackle more and more radical questions. In Chap. 1 I called this tendency “the longing for ultimate explanations.” I have tried to trace its progress in the recent developments in cosmology. Admittedly, our account of the theories, models and the more speculative reflections has been

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Creation and the Perpetuity of the Universee entire theological concept of creation, was the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas. This was of course an outcome of the enormous authority he enjoyed, and later of the fact that for a long time the Thomist philosophy was treated as well-nigh the Church’s official philosophy. As regards the creation i

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Controversies Over the Omnipotence of Godetaphysical reflection. At any rate that intellectual environment was characteristic of the whole of the Middle Ages. But with the approach of the Modern period and the emergence of questions which would eventually give rise to the empirical sciences, the creation issue could not remain insensitive