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Publication
W. W. Norton & Company (2010), Hardcover, 352 pages
Description
Most of us are aware of our own mortality, but few among us know what science, with insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about endings on a larger scale. Enter astronomer Chris Impey, who chronicles the death of the whole shebang: individual, species, bio- sphere, Earth, Sun, Milky Way, and, finally, the entire universe. With a healthy dose of humor, How It Ends illuminates everything from the technologies of human life extension and the evolutionary arms race between microbes and men to the inescapable dimming of the Sun and the ultimate "big rip," giving us a rare glimpse into a universe without us.
User reviews
LibraryThing member fpagan
Personal death, death of civilization, species death, biosphere death, planetary death, solar and stellar death, galactic death, death of the universe. A different way for readers to learn some science! On the optimistic side, some attention is paid to the transhumanist scenario (cryonics, tech
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singularity, mind uploading, ...), Bostrom's simulation hypothesis, and the multiverse concept. Show Less
LibraryThing member ktrout70
Good popular science.
Awards
Physics World Book of the Year (Shortlist — 2010)
Original publication date
2010
Physical description
352 p.; 6.42 inches
ISBN
0393069850 / 9780393069853
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