3.1 Cosmogenesis

This section highlights a constellation of reports that reveal why the universe can be understood as an inherently fertile environment for the florescence of life, mind, and self-reflective beings.

Quantum Cosmology

Aczel, Amir D. Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series.

Barbour, Julian B. The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.

Bousso, Raphael. “The Holographic Principle.” Reviews of Modern Physics. vol. 74, no. 3 (July 2002): 825–74.

Cambridge University Website.

Cartlidge, Edwin. “Microwaves Map Cosmic Origins.” Physics World. vol. 14, no. 6 (June 2001): 5–6.

Ferris, Timothy. The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: Norton, 1999.

Guth, Alan H. The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Hawking, Stephen. “A Brief History of Relativity.” Time. 31 December 1999, 66–70, 79–81.

Hogan, Craig J. “Enhanced: The Beginning of Time.” Science. vol. 295, no. 5563 (22 March 2002): 2223–25.

Linde, Andrei. “The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe.” Scientific American. vol. 271, no. 5 (November 1994): 48–55.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Website, updated 15 July 2003, (cited 3 August 2003).

Malin, Shimon. Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, A Western Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Peacock, John A. Cosmological Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Rowan-Robinson, Michael. The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Samuel, Eugene. “What Lies Beneath.” New Scientist. vol. 173, no. 2329 (9 February 2002): 24–27.

Smolin, Lee. “The New Universe Around the Next Corner.” Physics World. vol. 12, no. 12 (December 1999): 79–84.
_______.Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Turner, Michael S., and J. Anthony Tyson. “Cosmology at the Millennium.” Reviews of Modern Physics. vol. 71, no. 2. Special Issue. (March 1999): S145–S164.

An Organic Universe

Alper, Joseph. “It Came From Outer Space.” Astronomy. vol. 30, no. 11 (November 2002): 36–41.

Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.

Davies, Paul. “Physics and the Mind of God.” In Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God, eds. Alfred
Driessen and Antoine Suarez, 193–202. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1997.

de Duve, Christian. Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Dick, Steven J., ed. Many Worlds: The New Universe Extraterrestrial Life and the Theological Implications. Philadelphia, Pa.: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000.

Gardner, James. “The Selfish Biocosm.” Complexity. vol. 5, no. 3 (29 March 2000): 34–45.

Harman, Willis W., and Elisabet Sathouris. Biology Revisioned. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 1998.

Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lumsden, Charles, et al., eds. Physical Theory in Biology: Foundations and Explorations. Singapore: World Scientific, 1997.

McFadden, Johnjoe. Quantum Evolution: The New Science of Life. New York: Norton, 2001.

Nozick, Robert. Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Salthe, Stan N. “Natural Philosophy and Developmental Systems.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science. vol. 18, no. 5 (September/October 2001): 403–10.

Shapiro, Robert. Planetary Dreams: The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth. New York: J. Wiley, 1999.

Smoot, George, and Keay Davidson. Wrinkles in Time. New York: W. Morrow, 1993.

Stevenson, David J. “Planetary Oceans.” Sky & Telescope. vol. 104, no. 5 (November 2002): 38–44.

Swimme, Brian. The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999.

A Conscious, Intelligent Cosmos

Carter, Rita. Exploring Consciousness. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2002.

Donald, Merlin. A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

Goswami, Amit. The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World. New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1993.

Kafatos, Menas, and Robert Nadeau. The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality. 2d ed. New York: Springer, 2000.

King, Chris. “Quantum Mechanics, Chaos, and the Conscious Brain.” Journal of Mind and Behavior. vol. 18. nos. 2–3 (Spring/Summer 1997): 155–70.

Kurzweil, Ray. “The Intelligent Universe” Updated n. d. http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge107.html (cited 3 August 2003).

van Loocke, Philip R., ed. The Physical Nature of Consciousness (Advances in Consciousness Research, Series A, v. 29). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2000.

Stapp, Henry P. Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.

Torey, Zoltan. The Crucible of Consciousness: A Personal Exploration of the Conscious Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Vertosick, Frank T. The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing. New York: Harcourt, 2002.

A Thermodynamics of Life

Chaisson, Eric J. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Coveney, Peter V., and Roger Highfield. The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time’s Greatest Mystery. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991.

Jorgensen, Sven, et al. “The Evolution of the Thermodynamic Equilibrium in the Expanding Universe.” Physica Scripta. vol. 58, no. 5 (1998): 543–44.

Layzer, David. Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Prigogine, Ilya. From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences. San Francisco, Calif.: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1980.
_______.“Nonlinear Science and the Laws of Nature.” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. vol. 7, no. 9 (September 1997): 1917–26.

Root-Bernstein, Robert, and Patrick Dillon. “Molecular Complementarity I: The Complementarity Theory of the Origin and Evolution of Life.” Journal of Theoretical Biology. vol. 188, no. 4 (21 October 1997): 447–79.

Stewart, Ian. What Shape Is a Snowflake? New York: W. H. Freeman, Co., 2001.

Swenson, Rod. “Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Behavior.” In Comparative Psychology: A Handbook, eds. Gary Greenberg, and Maury M. Haraway, 207–18. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

Ulanowicz, Robert E. Ecology: The Ascendent Perspective. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Fractal Spacetime

Argyris, J., et al. “Fractal Space Signatures in Quantum Physics and Cosmology I. Space, Time, Matter, Fields, and Gravitation.” Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals. vol. 11, no. 11 (September 2000): 1671–1719.

Argyris, J., et al. “Fractal Space, Cosmic Strings, and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.” Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals. vol. 12, no. 1 (January 2001): 1–48.

Baryshev, Yurij, and Pekka Teerikorpi. Discovery of Cosmic Fractals. River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2002.

De Vega, H., et al. “Fractal Structures and Scaling Laws in the Universe: Statistical Mechanics of the Self-Gravitating Gas.” Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals. vol. 10, nos. 2–3 (February/March 1999): 329–43.

Kroger, Helmut, ed. “Fractal Geometry in Quantum Mechanics Field Theory and Spin Systems.” Physical Reports. vol. 323, no. 2 (January 2000): 81–181.

Laskin, Nick. “Fractals and Quantum Mechanics.” Chaos. vol. 10, no. 4 (December 2000): 747–875.

Ramos, F. M., et al. “Multiscaling and Nonextensivity of Large-Scale Structures in the Universe.” Physica D. vol. 168 (2002): 404–409.

Smolin, Lee. Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Tatekawa, Takayuki, and Kei-ichi Maeda. “Primordial Fractal Density Perturbations and Structure Formation in the Universe: One-Dimensional Collisionless Sheet Model.” The Astrophysical Journal. vol. 547, no. 2, part 1 (1 February 2001): 531–44.

Weil, Melinda L., and Ralph E. Pudritz. “Cosmological Evolution of Supergiant Star-Forming Clouds.” Astrophysical Journal. vol. 556, no. 1, part 1 (20 July 2001): 164–76.

The Anthropic Principle

Barrow, John D., and Frank J. Tipler. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Barrow, John D. “Life, the Universe, but Not Quite Everything.” Physics World. vol. 12, no. 12 (December 1999): 31–35.

Hogan, Craig J. “Why the Universe Is Just So.” Reviews of Modern Physics. vol. 72, no. 4 (October 2000): 1149–61.

Rees, Martin. Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
_______. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1999.

Vilenkin, Alexander. “Open Universes, Eternal Inflation, and the Anthropic Principle.” International Journal of Theoretical Physics. vol. 38, no. 11 (1 November 1999): 3135–45.

Astrobiology

Chela-Flores, Julian, and Francis Raulin, eds. Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

Chela-Flores, Julian, et al., eds. Astrobiology: Origins from the Big Bang to Civilization. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Cosmovici, Cristiano Batalli, Stuart Bowyer, Dan Werthimer, eds. Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Bioastronomy, IAU Colloquium No. 161, Capri, July 1–5, 1996. Bologna, Italy: Editrice Compositori, 1997.

Darling, David. Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Dorminey, Bruce G. Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.

European Space Administration. Updated 28 March 2002. http://www.lifeinuniverse.org/noflash/liu (cited 3 August 2003).

Horneck, Gerda, and Christa Baumstark-Khan, eds. Astrobiology: The Quest for the Conditions of Life. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002.

Lemarchand, Guillermo, and Karen J. Meech, eds. Bioastronomy ’99: A New Era in Bioastronomy: Proceedings of a Meeting Held at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA, 2–6 August 1999. San Francisco, Calif.: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000.

Lemonick, Michael D. “Can We Find Another Earth?” Discover. vol. 23, no. 3 (March 2002): 32–37.

Lissauer, Jack J. “Extrasolar Planets” Nature. vol. 419, no. 6905 (26 September 2002): 355–58.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA website. Updated n. d. http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/ (cited 3 August 2003).

Pendleton, Yvonne J., and Jack D. Farmer. “Life: A Cosmic Imperative?” Sky & Telescope. vol. 94, no. 1 (July 1997): 42–47.

Reichhardt, Tony. “Planetary Portraits.” Nature. vol. 415, no. 6872 (7 February 2002): 570–71.