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How It Ends

From You to the Universe

Chris Impey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:17th Jun '11

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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.

"A scientific view of the apocalypse unfolds in this tour of terminations. . . . Impey entertains as he informs about the facts of life and death." -- Booklist
"Eminently readable. . . . Impey injects humor throughout." -- Library Journal

ISBN: 9780393339987

Dimensions: 211mm x 142mm x 25mm

Weight: 439g

354 pages