FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 2004
Copyright © 2002 by John D. Barrow
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division
of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain
by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House U.K., London, in 2002,
and subsequently in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, in 2003.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:
Barrow, John D., 1952–
The constants of nature : from Alpha to Omega—the numbers that
encode the deepest secrets of the universe / John D. Barrow.
p. cm.
I. Physical constants—Popular works. I. Title.
QC39.B37 2002
530.8'1—dc21 2002075975
eISBN: 978-0-307-55535-9
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