The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity

Adams, Fred and Laughlin, Greg

ISBN 10: 0684854228 / ISBN 13: 9780684854229

Published by Free Press, 1999

New York. 1999. June 1999. Free Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684854228. June 1999. hardcover. Jacket design by Tom Stvan. keywords: Science Physics Time. DESCRIPTION - Two brilliant young physicists, Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin, captured the attention of the world when they announced they had identified the five ages of time. But is it possible for us to know the complete life story of the universe from beginning to end? The astonishing truth is that recent study has defined the essential mechanisms of astrophysics so well that science can now determine the five ages the universe will go through over its ten thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion - year existence. We now know how the cosmos was born, how it grew up, how it will shuffle into its old age, and how it will celebrate its googolth birthday. With THE FIVE AGES OF THE UNIVERSE, the mythologies of eternity and apocalypse can now be matched against scientific fact. Adams and Laughlin study the far future of a universe that, according to current astronomical observations, will expand forever. They show what will actually happen if a black hole enters our solar system, how life might exist beyond the atmosphere of a white dwarf, even how new universes could be produced and how we would travel to them. inventory #26679. Seller Inventory # z26679

Synopsis:

"The most detailed projection yet of what will happen to the universe as it expands toward infinity, " said The Washington Post when news of the authors' research into cosmic evolution broke in 1997. With major stories in USA Today and on the front page of The New York Times, followed by their cover article "The Future of the Universe" in the August 1998 issue of Sky & Telescope, Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin have made the future of the universe a topic as cutting-edge as it is fascinating.Viewing the universe as a 15-billion-year-old youth with a projected lifetime that seems endless, The Five Ages of the Universe narrates the biography of the cosmos from the first gasp of inflation right after the Big Bang and the birth of stars, to the fading of all light. The book vividly describes the death of our own sun, tremendous fiery supernova explosions, dramatic collisions of galaxies, the evaporation of black holes, and the possibility for life when there are no planets, stars, or black holes left. The result is an awesome cosmic drama -- a brilliant work of popular science that is to astronomy what Stephen Hawking's great bestseller A Brief History of Time is to theoretical physics.

Review: Neil de Grasse TYSON Scientific American Continuously engages the imagination....An entertainingly scary picture of our distant future.

Susan Okie The Washington Post Marvelous descriptive writing and mind-expanding explanations....What makes it even better than good science fiction is that it's true.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the ...
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.