Our Final Century
Author: Rees, Martin
ISBN: 9780099436867
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Nov 2004
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
Leading cosmologist Sir Martin Rees gives a sobering and fascinating look at the catastrophe which could threaten human life.
World authority on astrophysics, Sir Martin Rees, takes us on a journey through all the things which could wipe out mankind in the near future. From asteroids to disease to scientific discoveries gone wrong (from nanobots to the large Hadron collider) these are scenarios from disaster movies, analysed with a serious scientific eye. Some of these things definitely won't happen, some genuinely might - this is one book you won't be able to put down and which you'll never forget.
ISBN: 9780099436867
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Nov 2004
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
Leading cosmologist Sir Martin Rees gives a sobering and fascinating look at the catastrophe which could threaten human life.
World authority on astrophysics, Sir Martin Rees, takes us on a journey through all the things which could wipe out mankind in the near future. From asteroids to disease to scientific discoveries gone wrong (from nanobots to the large Hadron collider) these are scenarios from disaster movies, analysed with a serious scientific eye. Some of these things definitely won't happen, some genuinely might - this is one book you won't be able to put down and which you'll never forget.
