Barrow, John D.; Tipler, Frank J., The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

1. Introduction
   1. Prologue
   2. Anthropic Definitions
2. Design Arguments
   1. Historical Prologue
   2. The Ancients
   3. The Medieval Labyrinth
   4. The Age of Discovery
   5. Mechanical Worlds
   6. Critical Developments
   7. The Devolution of Design
   8. Design in Non-Western Religion and Philosophy
   9. Relationship Between the Design Argument and the Cosmological Argument
3. Modern Teleology and the Anthropic Principles
   1. Overview: Teleology in the Twentieth Century
   2. The Status of Teleology in Modern Biology
   3. Henderson and the Fitness of the Environment
   4. Teleological Ideas and Action Principles
   5. Teleological Ideas in Absolute Idealism
   6. Biological Constraints on the Age of the Earth: The First Successful Use of an Anthropic Timescale Argument
   7. Dysteleology: Entropy and the Heat Death
   8. The Anthropic Principle and the Direction of Time
   9. Teleology and the Modern “Empirical” Theologians
   10. Teleological Evolution: Bergson, Alexander, Whitehead, and the Philosophers of Progress
   11. Teilhard de Chardin: Mystic, Paleontologist and Teleologist
4. The Rediscovery of the Anthropic Principle
   1. The Lore of Large Numbers
   2. From Coincidence to Consequence
   3. “Fundamentalism”
   4. Dirac’s Hypothesis
   5. Varying Constants
   6. A New Perspective
   7. Are There Any Laws of Physics?
   8. Dimensionality
5. The Weak Anthropic Principle in Physics and Astrophysics
   1. Prologue
   2. Atoms and Molecules
   3. Planets and Asteroids
   4. Planetary Life
   5. Nuclear Forces
   6. The Stars
   7. Star Formation
   8. White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
   9. Black Holes
   10. Grand Unified Gauge Theories
6. The Anthropic Principles in Classical Cosmology
   1. Introduction
   2. The Hot Big Bang Cosmology
   3. The Size of the Universe
   4. Key Cosmic Times
   5. Galaxies
   6. The Origin of the Lightest Elements
   7. The Value of S
   8. Initial Conditions
   9. The Cosmological Constant
   10. Inhomogeneity
   11. Isotropy
   12. Inflation
   13. Inflation and the Anthropic Principle
   14. Creation ex nihilo
   15. Boundary Conditions
7. Quantum Mechanics and the Anthropic Principle
   1. The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
   2. The Many-Worlds Interpretation
   3. The Friedman Universe from the Many-Worlds Point of View
   4. Weak Anthropic Boundary Conditions in Quantum Cosmology
   5. Strong Anthropic Boundary Conditions in Quantum Cosmology
8. The Anthropic Principle and Biochemistry
   1. Introduction
   2. The Definitions of Life and Intelligent Life
   3. The Anthropic Significance of Water
   4. The Unique Properties of Hydrogen and Oxygen
   5. The Anthropic Significance of Carbon, Carbon Dioxide and Carbonic Acid
   6. Nitrogen, Its Compounds, and Other Elements Essential for Life
   7. Weak Anthropic Principle Constraints on the Future of the Earth
9. The Space-Travel Argument Against the Existence of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
   1. The Basic Idea of the Argument
   2. General Theory of Space Exploration and Colonization
   3. Upper Bounds on the Number of Intelligent Species in the Galaxy
   4. Motivations for Interstellar Communication and Exploration
   5. Anthropic Principle Arguments Against Steady-State Cosmologies
10. The Future of the Universe
    1. Man’s Place in an Evolving Cosmos
    2. Early Views of the Universe’s Future
    3. Global Constraints on the Future of the Universe
    4. The Future Evolution of Matter: Classical Timescales
    5. The Future Evolution of Matter: Quantum Timescales
    6. Life and the Final State of the Universe

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