Doomsday Calculation
Subtitle: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780316440707
Copyright date: 2019
First sentence: Six-year-old Helen Gregg, her nine-year-old sister, Frances, and their nine-year-old cousin, Ella Davies, never saw the atomic bomb that hit their playhouse.
Table of contents: title: Diana and Charles
pagenum: 3; label: Part I
title: Consider the Lemming
pagenum: 7; title: How to Predict Everything
pagenum: 9; title: Riddle of the Sphinx
pagenum: 24; title: The Minister of Tunbridge Wells
pagenum: 32; title: Twelve Reasons Why the Doomsday Argument Is Wrong
pagenum: 57; title: Twenty-Four Dogs in Albuquerque
pagenum: 71; title: Baby Names and Bomb Fragments
pagenum: 82; title: Sleeping Beauty
pagenum: 102; title: The Presumptuous Philosopher
pagenum: 110; title: Tarzan Meets Jane
pagenum: 121; title: The Shooting Room
pagenum: 128; title: The Metaphysics of Gumball Machines
pagenum: 136; label: Part II
title: Life, Mind, Universe
pagenum: 147; title: The Simulation Hypothesis
pagenum: 149; title: The Fermi Question
pagenum: 166; title: The Princess in the Tower
pagenum: 173; title: Two Questions for an Extraterrestrial
pagenum: 184; title: Pandora's Box
pagenum: 194; title: Life and Death in Many Worlds
pagenum: 209; title: 1/137
pagenum: 224; title: Summoning the Demon
pagenum: 241; title: You Are Here
pagenum: 256; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 263; title: Notes
pagenum: 265; title: Sources
pagenum: 283; title: Index
pagenum: 297