我们的宇宙栖息地 新版 Our Cosmic Habitat: New Edition

基本信息

Series:Princeton Science Library

Format:Paperback / softback 232 pages, 19 b/w illus.

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Imprint:Princeton University Press

ISBN:9780691178097

Published:21 Nov 2017

Weight:252g

Dimensions:142 x 214 x 16 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

我们的宇宙似乎是奇怪的 "亲生物"，对生命十分好客。这是偶然的，天意的，还是巧合？根据宇宙学家马丁·里斯的说法，答案取决于另一个问题的答案，即爱因斯坦的名言所提出的问题——"我感兴趣的是上帝是否能以不同的方式创造世界"。

这本极具吸引力的书探讨了假设答案是 "是 "的迷人探索。里斯探讨了这样一个概念：我们的宇宙只是一个巨大的 "多元宇宙 "或宇宙集合体的一部分，其中大多数其他宇宙都没有生命。那么，我们所谓的自然法则将不过是在我们自己的大爆炸之后强加给我们的地方法规。在这种情况下，我们的宇宙栖息地将是一个特殊的、可能是只有一个宇宙，在那里，普遍的物理规律允许生命出现。里斯首先探讨了我们太阳系的性质，并研究了一系列相关问题，如我们的宇宙是否是无限的。例如，他问道。生命的可能性有多大？大爆炸理论的可信度如何？然后，里斯在追溯因果链到起点之前，对长远的宇宙未来进行了探究。

总结时，他试图解开这样一个矛盾的概念：我们的整个宇宙，向各个方向延伸了100亿光年，从一个无限小的斑点出现。正如里斯所言，我们可能已经有了其他宇宙的暗示。但多元宇宙概念的命运取决于空间和时间的基石性质，其尺度比原子小一万亿兆倍，在量子物理学的引力所支配的领域里，仍然是未知的。《我们的宇宙栖息地》扩大了我们对宇宙的理解，所有那些像作者本人一样对我们居住的宇宙着迷的人，无论是科学家和非科学家都会阅读和喜欢这本书。

Our universe seems strangely "biophilic," or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: "What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently." This highly engaging book explores the fascinating consequences of the answer being "yes." Rees explores the notion that our universe is just a part of a vast "multiverse," or ensemble of universes, in which most of the other universes are lifeless. What we call the laws of nature would then be no more than local bylaws, imposed in the aftermath of our own Big Bang. In this scenario, our cosmic habitat would be a special, possibly unique universe where the prevailing laws of physics allowed life to emerge. Rees begins by exploring the nature of our solar system and examining a range of related issues such as whether our universe is or isn't infinite. He asks, for example: How likely is life? How credible is the Big Bang theory? Rees then peers into the long-range cosmic future before tracing the causal chain backward to the beginning.

He concludes by trying to untangle the paradoxical notion that our entire universe, stretching 10 billion light-years in all directions, emerged from an infinitesimal speck. As Rees argues, we may already have intimations of other universes. But the fate of the multiverse concept depends on the still-unknown bedrock nature of space and time on scales a trillion trillion times smaller than atoms, in the realm governed by the quantum physics of gravity. Expanding our comprehension of the cosmos, Our Cosmic Habitat will be read and enjoyed by all those--scientists and nonscientists alike--who are as fascinated by the universe we inhabit as is the author himself.

作者简介

马丁·里斯是英国皇家天文学家，剑桥大学三一学院院士，剑桥大学天文学研究所前所长，出版了畅销书Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe.

Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a former director of the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and author, most recently, of the bestselling Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe.