About this title: This text combines current 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.
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Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York: BasicBooks
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: Description: xiii, 162 p. : ill.; 25 cm. Subjects: Cosmology--Popular works. Near fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 1. pp. 162. read more
Description: 1994. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. First. Book Fine. Dj fine. 9.5x6. 162pp. Line drawings. E/p designs. Science Masters is a new international series in which leading scientists describe the current state of knowledge in their subject, and speculate about future developments. In THE LAST THREE MINUTES, Professor Paul Davies outlines the many current theories of how the universe may come to an end. Or is it possible that the universe never will end, that the 'last three minutes' will never come. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: NICOLSON
Date published: 1994
Description: Published by NICOLSON in 1994, 162 pages, paperback, tall size, paperback, covers good, internally good, without inscription, index. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: WEIDENFELD NICOLSON
Date published: 1994
Description: Published by WEIDENFELD NICOLSON in 1994, paperback, tall size, covers good, internally good. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Description: Collectable, large paperback. Slight wear to rear board else in NEW condition. Increasingly hard to find. POST FREE for a limited period in the UK. Search our entire stock with keyword paperbacks. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers scuffed and slightly creased, moderate edge wear/ several page tips creased read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Basic Books
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: Very Good. Clean, tight copy with no writing or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book. Trade Paperback. Pictorial Cover. 1st Edition: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 162 Pages. Measures 5-1/2" x 9-1/4". The spine is not creased. Illustrated with B&W drawings. Includes Preface, 11 Chapters, a Bibliography, and an Index. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: Very Good. 0465048927 SOFTCOVER (same ISBN 0465048927) free of markings. Cover shows light corner wear, hinge creased. Interior & spine evidence little to no use; overall, a very serviceable copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand new softcover. No markings. Tracking on every package. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 162 p. Science Masters Series. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. 162 p. Science Masters Series. Audience: General/trade. No remainder mark. Available today. Ships from the Great State of Maine. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The book is very solid with bright, unmarked pages. The cover has minor shelf & edge wear. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780465048922ISBN:0465048927
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. CLEAN AND BRIGHT. COVER SHOWS FEW SMUDGES AND SCRATCHES FROM SHELF WEAR. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 162 p. Science Masters Series. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Quantum vacuum decay. It's useless to say "beware" because the phenomenon is likely to propagate at or near the speed of light, unlike the bus barreling down on you."
"This book repeats several familiar cosmological themes: there was no time before the Big Bang, the Big Bang is the origin of space, space stretches through time, and this stretching continues through eternity, or until it begins to collapse back on itself through gravitational attraction (Big Crunch). For the lay person, understanding is feeble, even though there is great appreciation for all the cosmic mystery and majesty, and many key questions are left unclear. For example, the author says that energy (light) has mass and therefore has gravitational attraction, but there's also a hint that space, constituted by mass, is subject to gravitational pull, and that light is curved because it rides through (on) space (as opposed to light itself having mass that is subject to gravitational pull).
Somehow in this zillion-year cosmological history, Davies offers the possibility of human survival, which strikes the reader as more a secular aspiration for eternal life than as reasoned conjecture. Davies also shuts down any question about whether time and space existed prior to the Big Bang. At an intuitive level, one gets his point, but the question still seems so, so legitimate. The most disappointing part of this book is his discussion of the tension between order and disorder (entropy), with the latter the ultimate victor in cosmic time. "Order" he says is "information" as if the meaning is self-evident. Typically, information is understood as the "meaning" an organic body takes from its environment. Whether an exchange of "meaning" occurs between inorganic bodies (e.g., via electromagnetic forces, gravitons) when they influence each other is left unclear. It's not easy for a layperson to venture into cosmology."
"This book speaks on the birth and the ultimate death of the universe. The last three minutes details the accounts that lead up to and end existence as we know it. The corporeal world is very finite. This book won't allow you to think anything else.
Maybe you could call this an "emo" book because it makes everything seem futile in the end.
I loved this book and the doomsday description of our universe.
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