The far-future universe : eschatology from a cosmic perspective - Ellis, George Francis Rayner; Templeton Foundation (Philadelphia : Templeton Foundation Press, 2002)
Seeking the future / George V. Coyne -- Far, far future / John D. Barrow -- Eternity / Paul Davies -- Time of the universe / Michael Heller -- Living in a multiverse / Martin J. Rees -- Exotic genetic materials and the extent of life in the universe / A. Graham Cairns-Smith -- Time without end / Freeman J. Dyson -- Life in the universe / Freeman J. Dyson -- Does biology have an eschatology, and if so dies it have cosmological implications? / Simon Conway-Morris -- Deep times / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Games that end in a bang or a whimper / Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour -- Artificial intelligence and the far future / Margaret A. Boden -- Cosmic eschatology versus human eschatology / Owen Gingerich -- Cosmotology and religious ideas about the end of the world / Keith Ward -- Cosmos and theosis / t
"The present book about events all the way at the end of time grew out of a symposium sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation under the aegis of its Humble Approach Initiative"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Cosmology; Eschatology