The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead, Dispatches from the Front Line of Science

What happens when you die? According to one prominent physicist, you will be instantaneously resurrected - despite trillions upon trillions of years having passed - in the dying days of the Universe. Stretching before you will be a subjective eternity of existence; the never-ending days of being dead... This is just one of the strange but wonderful scientific ideas - each from the mind of one of the world's most daring and imaginative scientists - in Marcus Chown's superbly readable new book. Learn how the big bang may have been spawned by a collision between 'island universes'; how a single remarkable number contains the answer to every question we could ever ask; how the most widely accepted theory of the Universe's origin implies that Elvis never died; and how a computer program a mere four lines long could be generating the stars, the galaxies and the tip of your nose. Chown fearlessly adresses the big questions on the nature of the universe, the nature of reality, and the place of life in the universe. He argues that, ultimately, science at the leading edge is about the down-to-earth things that matter to all of us. Where did the Universe come from? Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here?