Contents
Prologue/Revolutions, 1
Introduction, 11
PART 1 The Crisis in Fundamental
Physics
1. Light and Life, 23
2. The Logic of Atomism, 30
3. The Miracle of the Stars, 36
4. The Dream of Unification, 47
5. The Lessons of String Theory, 58
PART 2 An Ecology of Space and Time
6. Are the Laws of Physics Universal?, 75
7. Did the Universe Evolve?, 90
8. Detective Work, 107
9. The Ecology of the Galaxy, 116
10. Games and Galaxies, 129
PART 3 The Organization of the
Cosmos
11. What is Life?, 141
12. The Cosmology of an Interesting Universe, 161
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13. The Flower and the Dodecahedron, 177
14. Philosophy, Religion, and Cosmology, 192
15. Beyond the Anthropic Principle, 202
PART 4 Einstein's Legacy
16. Space and Time in the New Cosmology, 213
17. The Road from Newton to Einstein, 222
18. The Meaning of Einstein's
Theory of Relativity, 233
19. The Meaning of the Quantum, 240
PART 5 Einstein's Revenge
20. Cosmology and the Quantum, 257
21. A Pluralistic Universe, 267
22. The World as a Network of Relations, 276
23. The Evolution of Time, 285
Epilogue/Evolutions, 294
Appendix: Testing Cosmological
Natural Selection, 301
Notes and Acknowledgments, 324
Selected Bibliography, 337
Glossary, 342
Index, 347