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"Anthropic Principle - a hypothetical principle that holds that the universe is fine-tuned so that we can be here to observe it. Many physicists have worried that embracing the Anthropic Principle will spell an end to scientific progress, but in The Cosmic Landscape, Leonard Susskind shows how string theory, rather than reaching a dead end, has led to a vastly expanded concept of the universe, in which the contentious principle makes perfect sense."--BOOK JACKET.

Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978.

Preface	ix
Introduction	3	(14)
chapter one The World According to Feynman	17	(46)
chapter two The Mother of All Physics Problems	63	(26)
chapter three The Lay of the Land	89	(22)
chapter four The Myth of Uniqueness and Elegance	111	(20)
chapter five Thunderbolt from Heaven	131	(38)
chapter six On Frozen Fish and Boiled Fish	169	(30)
chapter seven A Rubber Band—Powered World	199	(30)
chapter eight Reincarnation	229	(32)
chapter nine On Our Own?	261	(12)
chapter ten The Branes behind Rube Goldberg's Greatest Machine	273	(20)
chapter eleven A Bubble Bath Universe	293	(32)
chapter twelve The Black Hole War	325	(18)
chapter thirteen Summing Up	343	(34)
Epilogue	377	(4)
A Word on the Distinction between Landscape and Megaverse	381	(2)
Glossary	383	(6)
Note on Terminology	389	(1)
Index	390

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Cosmic Landscape : String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

Cosmic Landscape : String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

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