عنوان

Intelligent universe :

شابک

1435659317

شابک

1601639651

شابک

9781435659315

شابک

9781601639653

شماره

b734326

عنوان اصلي

Intelligent universe :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

AI, ET, and the emerging mind of the cosmos /

نام نخستين پديدآور

by James Gardner.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Franklin Lakes, N.J. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

New Page Books,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2007.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (269 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations (some color)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.

متن يادداشت

Hitching a ride on the software of everything -- Stages on artificial life's way -- Singularities beyond singularities -- ET -- The Fermi paradox revisited -- Interstellar cloning : colonizing the cosmos at light speed -- The cosmic medium is the message -- The emerging mind of the cosmos -- Will religion survive contact? -- The universe is coming to life -- Alpha, omega -- Afterword : childhood's end and the unity of everything.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"There is little doubt that Gardner's ideas will change yours."--Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the S.E.T.I. Institute What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have offered two bleak answers to this profound issue: fire or ice. The cosmos might end in fire--a cataclysmic Big Crunch in which galaxies, planets and life forms are consumed in a raging inferno as the universe contracts in a kind of Big Bang in reverse. Or the universe might end in ice--a ceaseless expansion of the fabric of space-time in which matter and energy are eternally diluted and cooled; stars wither and die and the cosmos simply fades into quiet and endless oblivion. In The Intelligent Universe, James Gardner envisions a third dramatic alternative--a final state of the cosmos in which a highly evolved form of group intelligence engineers a cosmic renewal, the birth of a new universe. Gardner's vision is that life and intelligence are at the very heart of the elegant machinery of the universe. It is a viewpoint that has won outspoken praise from an array of leading scientists, including Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal, and Templeton Prize winner Paul Davies. The Intelligent Universe is both a look into the past and a road map for the future of the universe. It explores the mysteries of the universe and of consciousness, and provides a frank and fascinating look at where our minds are taking us. James Gardner, a well known and widely published complexity theorist, lives in Portland, Oregon. His first book, Biocosm, was selected as one of the 10 best science books of 2003 by the editors of Amazon.com and was featured in major stories in TIME, U.S. News and World Report, Harper's, National Geographic and other major publications. Gardner's path-breaking scientific articles have appeared in Complexity (the scientific journal of the Santa Fe Institute), Acta Astronautica (the scientific journal of the International Academy of Astronautics), the International Journal of Astrobiology and the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. He is a regular lecturer at prominent institutions around the world.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

OverDrive, Inc.

شماره انبار

DFBC4BE4-F7E3-4FD8-B5E5-AE2CC0126190

عنوان

Intelligent universe.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

1564149196

موضوع مستند نشده

End of the universe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exobiology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Extraterrestrial anthropology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Fermi's paradox.

موضوع مستند نشده

Human-alien encounters.

موضوع مستند نشده

Life on other planets.

موضوع مستند نشده

End of the universe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exobiology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Extraterrestrial anthropology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Fermi's paradox.

موضوع مستند نشده

Human-alien encounters.

موضوع مستند نشده

Life on other planets.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Evolution.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 027000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gardner, James N.

تاريخ عمليات

20201216095917.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y