Summary Of The Last Three Minutes By Paul Davies

In The Last Three Minutes, Paul Davies explores two matters regarding the ultimate fate of the universe. The first matter concerns conceptualizing what the end of the universe will actually look like. For this, Davies analyzes the two leading hypotheses for what the universe will result in—a heat death or a big crunch. Operating under the conjecture that humanity’s descendants will be a race of super-beings capable of extreme information processing much discussion involves the question of whether or not humanity’s descendants may find a way to escape the destruction of the universe. Due to the speculative nature of envisioning the fate of the universe, Davies’ main concrete conclusion about the universe by the end of the book is that it
will end. Students taking Elementary Cosmology will render Davies' work as a fine reinforcement of concepts learned in the course such as the expansion of the universe, the cosmic microwave background, and black hole radiation. Similar to Elementary Cosmology, the book takes complicated astronomical processes, such as the aforementioned, and places them within the larger-scale context of the origin, development, and ultimate fate of the universe.