Martin rees, in his book just six numbers, mulls over the following six dimensionless constants, whose values he deems fundamental to presentday physical theory and the known structure of the universe. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading just six numbers. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the constants of nature. The great attractor is known by its effect on the movement of galaxies across hundreds of millions of light years mly. Science in the first half of the twentyfirst century. The deep forces that shape the universe kindle edition by rees, martin. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist. There are three possible geometries of the universe. May 11, 2015 as it turns out, the answer is both simpler and weirder than all those options. Great attractor simple english wikipedia, the free. The deep forces that shape the universe and millions of other books are available for instant access. If you own the to this book and it is wrongfully on our website, we offer a simple dmca procedure to. All the galaxies in the ga are redshifted, in accordance with the expansion of the universe.
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