Gloom and doom. Since the dawn of time, man has speculated about how the world might end. With clear language that makes the cutting-edge science o...
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Dec 16, 2009
Bob
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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
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Dec 17, 2009
Bria
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At first I scoffed, because, hey, you don't need to explain how gravitational lensing works to ME. But even when he was telling me something he knew, he was so overly dramatic as to elicit glee. And by the time he was throwing out calculations as to how to build a superbeing that can overcome the burning inferno of the final contraction of the universe, I had already regained my failing libido, and more.
Jun 05, 2008
Matt
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The in-depth descriptions of the world being destroyed by an asteroid, the universe dying a slow, cold death, and the converse possibility of its contracting into a reverse Big Bang that crushes all space and ends time were pretty rad. But they also felt watered down and rushed through to make room for Davies's speculation on how humanity's super-intelligent descendants might find miraculous ways to survive the apocalypse, and for some bad philosophizing about how maybe it's really death that g
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Aug 21, 2009
White
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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.
Sad.
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.
Sad.
Mar 09, 2009
A.
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Science for stupid people! Just how I like it -- simple and clear enough for me to understand it, and complex enough to make me feel like I didn't waste my time on something boring.
Oct 09, 2009
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe (Science Masters Series) by P. C. W. Davies (1994)
Aug 21, 2009
Mrs_M
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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.
Sad.
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.
Sad.
Nov 06, 2008
Mia
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Ryan picked this up at the $1 book store and I was so desperate for something to read that I took to reading SCIENCE in the bath.
It is surprisingly good. It's written in plain english, which is nice, even though it's pretty complex stuff. I learned a lot about stuff that I thought I already knew. And now I am obssessed with how much the universe weighs. THANKS Davies!
It is surprisingly good. It's written in plain english, which is nice, even though it's pretty complex stuff. I learned a lot about stuff that I thought I already knew. And now I am obssessed with how much the universe weighs. THANKS Davies!
Dec 19, 2009
The last three minutes : conjectures about the ultimate fate of the universe by P. C. W. Davies (1994)
Apr 24, 2009
Shannon
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"So cosmic death may be the price that has to be paid for cosmic success."
It's a short book with great figures. The greatest figure? Well that would be the cyclic-universe model, of course.
It's a short book with great figures. The greatest figure? Well that would be the cyclic-universe model, of course.
Jul 18, 2008
Cassandra
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I felt this book required a lot of fore-knowledge about physics and science in general. His writing isn't dense, but there is a lot of technicality to it.
Jan 31, 2012
Pat
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awesome. davies knows how to right informatively yet also make the content comprehensible for novice subject readers.
Sep 09, 2007
Travis
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It was really interesting but hard to understand at times. Personally, I think the universe will end by stardoom.
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