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If you get a kick out of cosmic coincidences The Anthropic Cosmological
Principle, reissued after a decade by Oxford University Press (拢9.99, ISBN
0 19 282147 4), is definitely for you. John Barrow and Frank Tipler cover
everything from the spookily fine-tuned energy levels of beryllium, carbon and
oxygen, to the remarkable properties of water鈥攁ll absolute essentials for
the evolution of life. The 鈥渁nthropic鈥� idea, which is that our very existence
may explain why the Universe is the way it is, is an extraordinary one. So too
is Barrow and Tipler鈥檚 account.