The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
- Author: Jamal N. Islam
- Date Published: June 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521113120
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This book describes what will ultimately happen to the contents of the universe. To understand the universe in the far future, we must first describe its present state and structure on the grand scale, and how its present properties arose. Dr Islam explains these topics in an accessible way in the first part of the book. From this background he speculates about the future evolution of the universe and predicts the major changes that will occur. The author has largely avoided mathematical formalism and therefore the book is well suited to general readers with a modest background knowledge of physics and astronomy.
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521113120
- length: 168 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.22kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Our galaxy
3. The large-scale structure of the universe
4. Elementary particles - a preliminary look
5. Is the universe open or closed? 6. Three ways for a star to die
7. Black holes and quasars
8. Galactic and supergalactic black holes
9. A black hole is not forever
10. Slow and subtle changes
11. Future of life and civilization
12. A collapsing universe
13. the steady state theory
14. The stability of the proton
15. Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
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