Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning

Book Overview

This highly interdisciplinary 2007 book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and adapt. Here, these anthropic considerations are diversified in a host of new ways to identify the most sensitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107406552
• ISBN13: 9781107406551
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.6"