Journeys to the Ends of the Universe presents a tour through the universe from the big bang onward. The book explores the limits of knowledge where scientific fact overtakes and merges with the wilder speculations of science fiction. The beginnings of galaxies, stars, planets, and even life itself are related back to the raveled turmoil of the first few seconds and years of life in the cosmos. The journey continues past the ultimate fate of the solar system to probe the nature of supernovae. The future of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, super-clusters of clusters of galaxies, and so on leads toward the finale, where the author provides some bizarre musings of physicists and astronomers, suggesting possible destinies for the universe stretching its present age billions of times into the future.
Author(s): C.R. Kitchin
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 208
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Journey 1 An Inflated Idea of Ourselves
Journey 2 Strings to Tie a Universe Together
Journey 3 Phoenix Rising
Journey 4 The Nearest Star
Journey 5 A Study in Contrasts
Journey 6 Thar She Blows!
Journey 7 The Hottest Spots in the Universe
Journey 8 Cosmic Dustbins
Journey 9 To the Hub!
Journey 10 The Enigma Machines
Journey 11 She was the universe
Bibliography
Index
