The book emphasizes the theory of a "landscape" with many universes out there.
Instead of the fact that the Universe is somehow just perfect for life, the truth is that "it's not that the universe is somehow contorting itself to accommodate us; it's just a diverse place and we find ourselves in a friendly corner"..
Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate.
This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe's rate of expansion, and measuring radiation left over from the Big Bang, the so-called cosmic microwave background..
Within the standard cosmological model, the equations of motion governing the universe as a whole are derived from general relativity with a small, positive cosmological constant. The solution is an expanding universe; due to this expansion, the radiation and matter in the universe cool down and become diluted.
The Cosmic Landscape is a non-fiction popular science book on the anthropic principle and string theory landscape.
It is written by theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind.
The book was initially published by Little, Brown and Company on December 12, 2005.
