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Contents
Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Numbers
The Big Questions
The Universe Explained
How the Universe Began
What the Universe Is Made of and How It All Holds Together
The Lure of Complete Unification
Dark Forces of the Cosmos
A Universe Fit for Life
Does a Multiverse Solve the Goldilocks Enigma?
Intelligent and Not-So-Intelligent Design
How Come Existence?
Afterword: Ultimate Explanations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
First Mariner Books edition 2008
Copyright © 2006 by Paul Davies
First published in Great Britain by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin
Group (UK), in 2006
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write
to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park
Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.
www.hmhco.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Davies, P.C.W.
Cosmic jackpot : why our universe is just right for life / Paul Davies.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
978-0-618-59226-5
ISBN
978-0-547-05358-5 (pbk.)
1. Cosmogony. 2. Cosmology. 3. Teleology. 4. God—Proof, Cosmological. 5.
God—Proof, Teleological. 6. Anthropic principle. 7. Human beings. 8. Life on
other planets. I. Title.
BS
651.
D
325 2007 523.1'2—dc22 2006023567
e
ISBN
978-0-547-34846-9
v4.1117
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the big questions

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