Пять возрастов Вселенной. В глубинах физики вечности

as The Twentieth Century Closed, Fred Adams And Greg Laughlin Captured The Attention Of The World By Identifying The Five Ages Of Time. In The Five Ages Of The Universe, Adams And Laughlin Demonstrate That We Can Now Understand The Complete Life Story Of The Cosmos From Beginning To End.

adams And Laughlin Have Been Hailed As The Creators Of The Definitive Long-term Projection Of The Evolution Of The Universe. Their Achievement Is Awesome In Its Scale And Profound In Its Scientific Breadth. But The Five Ages Of The Universe Is More Than A Handbook Of The Physical Processes That Guided Our Past And Will Shape Our Future; It Is A Truly Epic Story.

without Leaving Earth, Here Is A Fantastic Voyage To The Physics Of Eternity. It Is The Only Biography Of The Universe You Will Ever Need.

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piling One Layer Of Speculation Upon Another Yet Retaining A Disciplined, Scientific Approach, Astrophysicists Adams (university Of Michigan) And Laughlin (uc-berkeley) Take Readers On A Cosmic Adventure To A Time In The Unimaginably Distant Future. They View Time Not In Linear Years But In Logarithmic Cosmological Decades. We Live Early In The 10th Cosmological Decade, Approximately 10 Billion (10 To The 10th Power) Years Since The Big Bang. For The First Six Cosmological Decades, The Primordial Era, The Authors Explain, An Intensely Hot Universe Expanded And Cooled. Elementary Particles Formed, Followed By Atoms And Molecules. The Stage Was Set For The Present Stelliferous Era Of Galaxies, Stars And Planets That Will Continue Through The 14th Cosmological Decade. Our Universe Will Then Be 10,000 Times Its Present Age, And Even Its Slowest-burning Stars Will Have Used Up Their Nuclear Fuel. Stellar Remnants Will Dominate The Next 25 Cosmological Decades, The Degenerate Era. Following That Will Be The Black Hole Era, More Than 60 Cosmological Decades Long. The Final Chapter Will Be The Dark Era, A Steadily Diminishing, Infinitely Long Decline Toward Universal Equilibrium. The Authors Speculate On The Survival Of Intelligent Life Through The Entire History. They Also Discuss The Evolution Of Universes In Darwinian Terms. Many Readers Will Reach Their Saturation Point For Conjecture Well Before Those Final Sections, But Others, Especially Science Fiction Buffs, Will Savor Every Lengthening, Darkening, Diminishing Epoch Leading To The Authors' Concluding Vision: The Birth Of New Universes More Than 100 Cosmological Decades After Ours Burst Into Existence. (june) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

As the twentieth century closed, Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin captured the attention of the world by identifying the five ages of time. In The Five Ages of the Universe, Adams and Laughlin demonstrate that we can now understand the complete life story of the cosmos from beginning to end. Adams and Laughlin have been hailed as the creators of the definitive long-term projection of the evolution of the universe. Their achievement is awesome in its scale and profound in its scientific breadth. But The Five Ages of the Universe is more than a handbook of the physical processes that guided our past and will shape our future; it is a truly epic story. Without leaving earth, here is a fantastic voyage to the physics of eternity. It is the only biography of the universe you will ever need. Filled with startling scenarios--including the possibility that new universes will be created and that life in some form may exist long after planets, stars, and black holes disappear, this book reads like mind-blowing science fiction but is solidly anchored in current astronomical observations. Photos & line drawings. Two astrophysicists offer a chronicle of the universe's history, describing its beginning with the Big Bang and looking into the incredibly distant future, with vivid portraits of the sun's death, the evaporation of black holes, and other astronomical end-time events This book takes readers on a fantastic voyage to the physics of eternity, with a long-term projection of the evolution of the universe