The Evolution and Development of the Universe
Abstract
This document is the Special Issue of the First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe (EDU 2008). Please refer to the preface and introduction for more details on the contributions. Keywords: acceleration, artificial cosmogenesis, artificial life, Big Bang, Big History, biological evolution, biological universe, biology, causality, classical vacuum energy, complex systems, complexity, computational universe, conscious evolution, cosmological artificial selection, cosmological natural selection, cosmology, critique, cultural evolution, dark energy, dark matter, development of the universe, development, emergence, evolution of the universe evolution, exobiology, extinction, fine-tuning, fractal space-time, fractal, information, initial conditions, intentional evolution, linear expansion of the universe, log-periodic laws, macroevolution, materialism, meduso-anthropic principle, multiple worlds, natural sciences, Nature, ontology, order, origin of the universe, particle hierarchy, philosophy, physical constants, quantum darwinism, reduction, role of intelligent life, scale relativity, scientific evolution, self-organization, speciation, specification hierarchy, thermodynamics, time, universe, vagueness.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.5508,
title = {The Evolution and Development of the Universe},
author = {Clement Vidal and Charles Auffray and Alex H. Blin and Jean Chaline and Louis Crane and Thomas Durt and Borje Ekstig and Horace Fairlamb and Jan Greben and Rob Hengeveld and Francis Heylighen and Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis and Giuseppe Longo and Nicolas F. Lori and Denis Noble and Laurent Nottale and Franc Rottiers and Stanley Salthe and John Stewart and Ruediger Vaas and Gertrudis Van de Vijver and Nico M. van Straalen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.5508},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
355 pages, Special Issue of the First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe (EDU 2008) (online at: http://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/Conference_2008) To be published in Foundations of Science. Includes peer-reviewed papers, commentaries and responses (metadata update)