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- catalog abstract "The Last Three Minutes, by world-renowned physicist and author Paul Davies, is a wonderful, fun book - morbid to the core! - that combines the latest and most scientifically sound thinking about the ultimate fate of the universe with vivid scenarios of how it will feel to those of us still around when the end comes. Look, if you will, past that last day of sunlight into perpetual night. Experience the onset of stardoom - when the nuclear energy of burning stars is finally exhausted. Journey through those eons of time when black holes are the last major source of energy, devouring the scattered remnants of burnt-out galaxies. And then, perhaps, the big crunch - the last three minutes, when the temperature of the cosmos becomes so great that even atomic nuclei must disintegrate, when larger and larger regions of space are compressed into smaller and smaller volumes, when, as Davies writes, "the handiwork of the big bang, and of generations of stars in creating heavy chemical elements, is undone in less time than it takes you to read this sentence." Will this be the stage on which cosmic life plays out its final act? Or is the universe destined to end very differently and in the much less distant future, overwhelmed by a sudden and unexpected cosmic catastrophe? Indeed, will the universe end at all? If it endures forever, will humanity or our descendants, robots or flesh, find a way to survive through eternal night?".
- catalog contributor b7282586.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Doomsday. The dying universe. The first three minutes. Stardoom. Nightfall. Weighing the universe. Forever is a long time. Life in the slow lane. Life in the fast lane. Sudden death-and rebirth. Worlds without end?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.".
- catalog description "The Last Three Minutes, by world-renowned physicist and author Paul Davies, is a wonderful, fun book - morbid to the core! - that combines the latest and most scientifically sound thinking about the ultimate fate of the universe with vivid scenarios of how it will feel to those of us still around when the end comes. Look, if you will, past that last day of sunlight into perpetual night. Experience the onset of stardoom - when the nuclear energy of burning stars is finally exhausted. Journey through those eons of time when black holes are the last major source of energy, devouring the scattered remnants of burnt-out galaxies. And then, perhaps, the big crunch - the last three minutes, when the temperature of the cosmos becomes so great that even atomic nuclei must disintegrate, when larger and larger regions of space are compressed into smaller and smaller volumes, when, as Davies writes, "the handiwork of the big bang, and of generations of stars in creating heavy chemical elements, is undone in less time than it takes you to read this sentence." Will this be the stage on which cosmic life plays out its final act? Or is the universe destined to end very differently and in the much less distant future, overwhelmed by a sudden and unexpected cosmic catastrophe? Indeed, will the universe end at all? If it endures forever, will humanity or our descendants, robots or flesh, find a way to survive through eternal night?".
- catalog extent "xiii, 162 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Last three minutes.".
- catalog identifier "0465048927 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Last three minutes.".
- catalog isPartOf "Science masters series".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : BasicBooks,".
- catalog relation "Last three minutes.".
- catalog subject "523.1/9 20".
- catalog subject "Cosmology Popular works.".
- catalog subject "QB982 .D38 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Doomsday. The dying universe. The first three minutes. Stardoom. Nightfall. Weighing the universe. Forever is a long time. Life in the slow lane. Life in the fast lane. Sudden death-and rebirth. Worlds without end?".
- catalog title "The last three minutes : conjectures about the ultimate fate of the universe / Paul Davies.".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".