Our Universes

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Columbia University Press, 1991 - Philosophy - 213 pages
Expanded from a February 1989 lecture at Brookhaven National Laboratory, noted physicist Wilkinson romps through modern astrophysical cosmology, contending that we create a multitude of conceptual universes many incompatible in order to try to make sense of peculiar things that happen, like life. An

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Contents

Our Nature
7
Our Intellectual Tools
59
The Big Bang
97
The Goodness of Fit
169
Index
203
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