The End. / Michael D. Lemonick.
by Lemonick, Michael D; Overbye, Dennis; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 55Science. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2001; New York Times, 2001ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Big bang theory | Cosmic background radiation | Cosmological constant | Dark energy (Astronomy) | End of the universe | Expanding universe | Inflationary universe | Quantum gravity | Superstring theories | Universe -- Forecasting | Universe -- Research | Universe -- OriginDDC classification: 050 Summary: THE END -- "Astrophysicists say that now they can finally tell us how the universe will expire--and it's not with a bang!" (TIME) The author explores recent discoveries to solve the baffling mystery of what will happen to our galaxy at the end of time.Summary: BEFORE THE BIG BANG, THERE WAS...WHAT? -- "Until recently no one could attend a lecture on astronomy and ask the modern version of Augustine's question--what happened before the Big Bang?--without receiving the same frustrating answer, courtesy of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes how matter and energy bend space and time." (NEW YORK TIMES) The author presents some new theories about what may have existed before the inception of the universe.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: The End, June 25, 2001; pp. 48-56.
Originally Published: Before the Big Bang, There Was...What?, May 22, 2001; pp. D1-D2.
THE END -- "Astrophysicists say that now they can finally tell us how the universe will expire--and it's not with a bang!" (TIME) The author explores recent discoveries to solve the baffling mystery of what will happen to our galaxy at the end of time.
BEFORE THE BIG BANG, THERE WAS...WHAT? -- "Until recently no one could attend a lecture on astronomy and ask the modern version of Augustine's question--what happened before the Big Bang?--without receiving the same frustrating answer, courtesy of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes how matter and energy bend space and time." (NEW YORK TIMES) The author presents some new theories about what may have existed before the inception of the universe.
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