000299412 000__ 02196cam\a22003494a\45\0 000299412 001__ 299412 000299412 005__ 20210513111601.0 000299412 008__ 050629s2006\\\\nyua\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000299412 010__ $$a 2005018796 000299412 020__ $$a0316155799 (alk. paper) 000299412 02430 $$a9780316155793$$d52495 000299412 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm60798474 000299412 035__ $$a299412 000299412 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dC#P$$dBUR$$dSYB$$dVP@$$dISE 000299412 042__ $$apcc 000299412 049__ $$aISEA 000299412 05000 $$aQB981$$b.S886 2006 000299412 08200 $$a523.1/2$$222 000299412 1001_ $$aSusskind, Leonard. 000299412 24510 $$aCosmic landscape :$$bstring theory and the illusion of intelligent design /$$cLeonard Susskind. 000299412 250__ $$a1st ed. 000299412 260__ $$aNew York :$$bLittle, Brown and Co.,$$c2006. 000299412 300__ $$axii, 403 p. :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm. 000299412 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000299412 5050_ $$aThe world according to Feynman -- The mother of all physics problems -- The lay of the land -- The myth of uniqueness and elegance -- Thunderbolt from heaven -- On frozen fish and boiled fish -- A rubber band-powered world -- Reincarnation -- On our own? -- The branes behind Rube Goldberg's greatest machine -- A bubble bath universe -- The black hole war -- Summing up. 000299412 520__ $$aThe beginning of the 21st century is a watershed in modern science, a time that will forever change our understanding of the universe, Susskind contends. Several decades ago, he introduced the revolutionary concept of string theory to the world of physical science. In doing so, he inspired a generation of physicists who believed that the theory would uniquely predict the properties of our universe. Now, in his first book, Susskind argues that the very idea of such an "elegant theory" no longer suits our understanding of the universe, and that our narrow 20th-century view of a unique universe will have to give way to the much broader concept of a gigantic cosmic landscape--a megaverse, pregnant with new possibilities.--From publisher description. 000299412 650_0 $$aCosmogony. 000299412 650_0 $$aAstrophysics. 000299412 650_0 $$aIntelligent design (Teleology) 000299412 650_0 $$aString models. 000299412 85200 $$bgen$$hQB981$$i.S886$$i2006 000299412 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018796.html 000299412 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:299412$$pGLOBAL_SET 000299412 980__ $$aBIB 000299412 980__ $$aBOOK 000299412 994__ $$aC0$$bISE