This book confirms the author's gift for explaining advanced scientific ideas in simple language, and for exploring their philosophical implications. The end of the universe is a most suitable subject for this kind of discussion, in that the evidence for it can only be of an indirect and hypothetical nature, and thus open to all sorts of differing interpretations. Davies sets out the arguments for the three possible outcomes: the universe will go on expanding indefinitely; it will slow down and eventually turn round and collapse into a zero space, the reverse of the Big Bang; it will reach a steady state neither expanding nor contracting but staying the same for ever. As a religious man, Davies is equally curious about the implications for humans: is there any sense in which humanity can expect to survive for eternity?
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Paul Davies obtained his Ph.D. at University College, London, and has worked at the universities of Cambridge, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Adelaide. He holds the post of Visiting Professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College, London, although he remains based in South Australia. Professor Davies is well known as an author and broadcaster. His particular interest in the philosophical aspects of science is reflected in his many books, including the bestsellers God and the New Physics, The Mind of God and The Fifth Miracle. In 1995 he received the world's largest price for intellectual endeavour, the Templeton prize, for his work on science and religion.
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