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082			_a523.12 _bSUS
100			_aSusskind, Leonard
245			_aThe cosmic landscape : string theory and the illusion of intelligent design
260			_bBack Bay Books, _c2006. _aNew York :
300			_axii,403 p. ; _bill., _c21 cm.
365			_b18.99 _c$ _d89.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aAnthropic 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
650			_aAstrophysics
650			_aCosmogony
650			_aintelligent design
650			_aString models
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