The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe (The Science Masters Series)
by By Davies, P. C. W.
Category: Science , Cosmology

Davies (natural philosophy, U. of Adelaide, Australia) presents  a variety of scenarios for the ultimate fate of the universe. He describes theories such as the earth's predicted collision in 2126 with the Swift-Tuttle comet, Helmholtz's theory of the universe's slow disintegration by entropy, and speculations that the violent collapse of our universe may give birth through an umbilical wormhole to a new universe. Davies examines the scientific as well as the human implications of the alternative endings to our universal drama. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.