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WHO hasn’t ever wondered why we are all here, or whether there’s a purpose? Or if we will ever find satisfactory answers to such questions? The “Goldilocks enigma” is the puzzle of why life can exist in the universe; in other words, why the cosmos is “just right” – like the porridge in the famous fairy tale. Unlike the plethora of popular science books that subtly skew themselves towards addressing “cosmic” questions, this one tackles them head-on. It is a crash course in cutting-edge cosmology and an encounter with a mind-bending universe that gives birth to itself.

The Goldilocks Enigma

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