Barrow, John

Barrow, John and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (New York Oxford University Press, 1986). 

Barrow, John D. The World within the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1990. 

Barrow, John D. Theories of Everything. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1991. Barrow, John D. and Tipler, Frank J. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1986. 

We thank Jim Barrow, John Grace, and Michelle Watt for useful comments. 

Barrow John D. (1942-) Brit, phys., protagonist of cosmology and gravitation theory as well as aspects of the history and philosophy of science, writer of popularizing books... 

Hulme M. Barrow E.M. Arnell N.W. Harrison P.A. Johns T.C. and Downing T.E. (1999). Relative impacts of human-induced climate change and climate variability. Nature, 397, 689-691. 

John Barrow and Frank Tipler, in the Anthropic Cosmological Principle, are fascinated by the number of seemingly coincidental conditions, events, and physical constants that guide our Universe. For example, they find the number of coincidences involving 1039 remarkable. 

The dissociation energy D0 has been derived by Johns and Barrow 61) from a linear Birge-Sponer extrapolation as 125 10 kcal/mol, whereas Hastie and Margrave report the value >298 = 5.9 0.1 eV (136 2 kcal/Mol). 

Quoted in John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler The Anthropic Cosmological Principle The Anthropic Principle and Biochemistry (p. 541)... 

Rase, H.F. Barrow, M.H., Project Engineering of Process Plants, John Wiley Sons, New York, NY,1964. 

Linda A. Luck" , Ronald A. Venters, James T. Kapron, Karen E. Rothi3, Seth A. Barrows , sara G. Paradis and John W. Crabb3... 

There have been no direct determinations of the ionization potential but Johns and Barrow (1) have calculated a value by 2 + —1 assuming the B E state of CF to be the first of a Rydberg series. They report IP = 8.91 eV (205.464 kcal ) which yields... 

Johns and R. F. Barrow, Proc. Phys. Soc. (London) 71, 476 (1958). ydon, "Dissociation Energies and Spectra of Diatomic Molecules," 3rd ed.. Chapman and Hall Ltd., London, 1968. chard. The Aerospace Corporation, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization Contract F04701-73-C-0074,... 

In 1913, long after Charles Darwin had argued for the htness of organisms for their environment, the Harvard chemist Lawrence J. Henderson pointed out that the organisms would not exist at all except for the htness of the environment itself. Fitness there must be, in environment as well as in organism, he declared near the outset of his classic work. The Fitness of the Environment (1913, p. 6). While most of Henderson s contemporaries ignored the philosophical implications of this work, as John Barrow and Frank Tipler have noted, it still comprises the foundahon of the Anthropic Principle as applied to biochemical systems (1986, p. 143). 

I am indebted to Iris Fry for her helpful comments on a first version of this essay, to Grant Mathews and Bill Stoeger for their help in illuminating some of the dark comers in the physics of the story, and to John Barrow for effective editorial advice. 

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