| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
94006345 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0465048927 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780465048922 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)29953102 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
523.19 Dav |
| Item number |
11 |
| 090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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83197 |
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83196 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
523.19 Dav |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Davies, Paul frey50 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The last three minutes : |
| Remainder of title |
conjectures about the ultimate fate of the universe / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Paul Davies. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
BasicBooks, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c1994. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 162 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Science masters series |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Doomsday. |
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The dying universe. |
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The first three minutes. |
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Stardoom. |
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Nightfall. |
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Weighing the universe. |
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Forever is a long time. |
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Life in the slow lane. |
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Life in the fast lane. |
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Sudden death-and rebirth. |
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Worlds without end? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The Last Three Minutes, by world-renowned physicist and author Paul Davies, is a wonderful, fun book - morbid to the core! - that combines the latest and most scientifically sound thinking about the ultimate fate of the universe with vivid scenarios of how it will feel to those of us still around when the end comes. Look, if you will, past that last day of sunlight into perpetual night. Experience the onset of stardom - when the nuclear energy of burning stars is finally exhausted. Journey through those eons of time when black holes are the last major source of energy, devouring the scattered remnants of burnt-out galaxies. And then, perhaps, the big crunch - the last three minutes, when the temperature of the cosmos becomes so great that even atomic nuclei must disintegrate, when larger and larger regions of space are compressed into smaller and smaller volumes, when, as Davies writes, "the handiwork of the big bang, and of generations of stars in creating heavy chemical elements, is undone in less time than it takes you to read this sentence." Will this be the stage on which cosmic life plays out its final act? Or is the universe destined to end very differently and in the much less distant future, overwhelmed by a sudden and unexpected cosmic catastrophe? Indeed, will the universe end at all? If it endures forever, will humanity or our descendants, robots or flesh, find a way to survive through eternal night? |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cosmology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Kosmologie. |
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AJML |
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500 - 599 |
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523.19 Dav |
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11 |