TY - BOOK AU - Fred Adams TI - The five ages of the universe : inside the physics of eternity SN - 0684854228 U1 - 523.1 F871 F PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Free Press KW - Cosmology N1 - Two astrophysicists offer a chronicle of the universe's history, describing its beginning with the Big Bang and looking into the incredibly distant future, with vivid portraits of the sun's death, the evaporation of black holes, and other astronomical end-time events; ch. 1. Primordial era -- ch. 2. Stelliferous era -- ch. 3. Degenerate era -- ch. 4. Black hole era -- ch. 5. Dark era ER -