The Edge of Infinity: Where the Universe Came from and how it Will End

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Simon and Schuster, 1981 - Science - 194 pages
An eminent physicist writes of the physics of the future when uncontrolled gravity could destroy the orderly, predictable operation of the cosmos by creating singularities.

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Measuring the infinite 242
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Space and time in crisis
45
Towards the edge of infinity
72
Copyright

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About the author (1981)

Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster. He received degrees in physics from University College, London. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney and has held previous academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Adelaide. Most of his research has been in the area of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Davies has also has written many books for the general reader in the fascinating fields of cosmology and physics. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including The Mind of God, Other Worlds, God and the New Physics, The Edge of Infinity, The Cosmic Blueprint, Are We Alone?, The Fifth Miracle, The Last Three Minutes, About Time, and How to Build a Time Machine. His awards include an Advance Australia Award for outstanding contributions to science, two Eureka Prizes, the 2001 Kelvin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, and the 2002 Faraday Prize by The Royal Society for Progress in religion. He also received the Templeton Prize for his contributions to the deeper implications of science. In April 1999 the asteroid 1992 OG was officially named (6870) Pauldavies in his honour.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Edge of Infinity: Where the Universe Came from and how it Will End
AuthorP. C. W. Davies
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 1981
Original fromUniversity of Minnesota
DigitizedJan 25, 2010
ISBN0671440632, 9780671440633
Length194 pages
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