Just Six Numbers
by Martin J. Rees · first published 1999
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Using data from very recent scientific discoveries, the author reveals the six numbers upon which all physical reality rests, from atomic structure to human tissue.
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I would highly recommend Martin Rees' Just Six Numbers. I've not read the actual book, but the author-narrated audio is a perennial mind-expanding yet strangely soporific bed time favourite of mine.
on “Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe” ↗Related and recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Six-Numbers-Forces-Universe/dp/0...
on “Coincidences that make our existence possible” ↗…We also have the abundance of carbon in the universe, and somewhere between a handful and scores of others depending on who you ask. The best book I've read on this phenomenon so far is Martin Rees' Just Six Numbers. With the exception of one author, I haven't seen anyone dispute that the universe at least appears to be fine-tuned for the existence of life. Instead the counterarguments focus on alternative explanations…