Better than Earth.

R. Heller

DOI:10.1038/scientificamerican0115-32

Corpus ID: 27571953

Better than Earth.

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  title={Better than Earth.},
  author={R. Heller},
  journal={Scientific American},
  year={2015},
  volume={312 1},
  pages={
          32-9
        }
}

R. Heller
Published 2015
Geology, Medicine, Physics
Scientific American

Do We Inhabit The Best O All Possible Worlds? German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz thought so, writing in 1710 that our planet, warts and all, must be the most optimal one imaginable. Leibniz's idea was roundly scorned as unscientific wishful thinking, most notably by French author Voltaire in his magnum opus, Candide. Yet Leibniz might find sympathy from at least one group of scientists - the astronomers who have for decades treated Earth as a golden standard as they search for worlds beyond… Expand

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