Cosmic Womb by Wickramasinghe, Chandra -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Publisher’s Preface: A Mystery of the Third Kind: Part I: Origins of Life in the Cosmos

Prologue Chapter 1: Definite Knowledge vs. Speculation

LIFE ON EARTH EMERGENCE OF HOMINIDS IMPROBABILITY OF LIFE

Chapter 2: Unraveling of a Controversy

A PERSONAL BACKGROUND INTERSTELLAR DUST THEORIES LIFE MOLECULES IN SPACE BACTERIAL DUST IN SPACE DAWN OF LIFE AS A COSMIC PHENOMENON SERENDIPITY REPLICATION OF BACTERIA IN A COSMIC CONTEXT DISEASES FROM SPACE? RED FLU PANDEMIC AND ANTECEDENTS VIRUSES IN OUR GENES ZIKA VIRUS COMET HALLEY TO THE RESCUE CLUES FROM METEORITES EVOLUTION AND DISEASE RED RAIN AND METEORITES

Chapter 3: History of Panspermia

EARLIEST HISTORY—REVIVAL OF AN ANCIENT IDEA PASTEUR AND PANSPERMIA PANSPERMIA CATCHES ON ULTIMATE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION EXTREMOPHILES AND PANSPERMIA RESURGENCE OF PANSPERMIA

Chapter 4: Cosmic Coincidences, God, Creationism, and Consciousness

INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE ANTHROPIC IDEAS MULTIVERSE IDEAS MOVE AWAY FROM COSMIC INTELLIGENCE ARKANSAS TRIAL OF 1981 RELIGION AND SCIENCE CONSCIOUSNESS REBIRTH IN BUDDHISM

Chapter 5: Bacteria Entering Earth

LESLIE HALE AND THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S VISITOR SURVIVAL OF MICROBES ON EARTH MODERN STRATOSPHERIC EXPERIMENTS TO TEST PANSPERMIA OCTOPUS DNA

Chapter 6: Alien Planets and Alien Intelligence

SEARCH FOR ALIEN PLANETS THE EARTH AS HOME OF LIFE INTELLIGENCE OUTSIDE EARTH SETI (SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE) PROGRAM PANSPERMIC PERSPECTIVE CURRENT PROSPECTS FOR PANASPERMIA AND SETI SPACE TRAVEL PROSPECTS

Chapter 7: Earth’s Continually Changing Conditions

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Part II: Intelligent Speculation Based on Cutting-Edge Science

Prologue

A BRIEF PREAMBLE

Chapter 8: The “Coincidence Pigeons”

THE KNOWLEDGE REVOLUTION THE GODDESS AND THE DREAMING ASPERGER SYNDROME AND SAVANTS WOLFGANG PAULI AND 137 MY OWN PRIME NUMBER, THE SAINT, AND THE MYSTIC

Chapter 9: Physics and Synchronicity

ANYONE CAN DO IT THE SPHERE A PI IN THE SKY

Chapter 10: The Next Frontier of Knowledge

QUANTUM WEIRDNESS ISLAND OF STARS ENTER THE EXOPLANETS ET COMES HOME DARKER THAN DARK MANY WORLDS, MULTIVERSE, AND MANY DIMENSIONS FROM THE BOWELS OF STARS GATECRASHERS OF EVOLUTION MAPPING THE BRAIN HELLO AND GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPS MIND UPLOAD WEIRDER THAN WEIRD PHYSICS DOUBLE SLIT AND ENTANGLEMENT ENTANGLED NOT JUST MANY UNIVERSES BUT ALSO MANY DIMENSIONS MEANWHILE, ENTER THE MATRIX

Chapter 11: The Archives of the Mind

WHERE IS EVERYBODY? “READING” AN UNINSCRIBED PYRAMID A MYSTERIOUS CONCAVITY AN EARTH-COMMENSURABLE UNIT PIAZZI SMYTH AND THE “PYRAMID INCH” DESIGNED MEASUREMENTS VS. BUILT MEASUREMENTS GRAVITY THE ROYAL CUBIT AND THE CIRCLE A REVIEW DEALING WITH EGYPTOLOGICAL INTIMIDATION THE SYMBOLIST MATHEMATICIAN THE VIRTUAL SPACE AT THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID CORRIDORS, GALLERY, CHAMBERS, AND SHAFTS PRIME NUMBERS BLUEPRINT CONTACT? STAR SHAFTS A PLANETARY GPS? THE SPEED OF LIGHT? MY TAKE

Conclusion: Forecasting the Future Epilogue

CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE ROBERT BAUVAL

Appendix I: The Concavity of the Great Pyramid: A Design Feature?

THE CONCAVITY THE PYRAMID GEOMETRY FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES THE VIRTUAL SPACE A SPHERE AT THE TOP?

Appendix II: The Location of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid

THE KING’S CHAMBER THE STAR SHAFTS CONCLUSION

Appendix III: The Great Pyramid of Giza: New Facts, Discoveries, and Theories

FOUR DIFFERENT BASE LENGTHS GROUND PLAN NORTH–SOUTH CROSS SECTION EAST–WEST CROSS SECTION EAST–WEST CROSS-SECTION DIMENSIONS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID NORTH–SOUTH CROSS-SECTION DIMENSIONS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID NORTH LATITUDE LOCATION THE FOUR SIDES AND THE EXTRAORDINARY MATHEMATICAL DATA THEY EACH PRODUCE PERIMETER OF THE GREAT PYRAMID IN METERS CONCAVITIES MYSTERY OF 103 SECRET CHAMBER? LAST NOTES

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