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The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

August 8, 2024 by Uncoolaidman Leave a Comment

This is your universe, and it’s ending one second at a time. Some day, likely after our Sun has gone supernova and life as we know it has ceased to be, the universe will come to an end. I had heard of the hypothesis of the heat death of the universe before, and like all semi-informed people I thought I would become an expert by reading the first section of the Wikipedia entry on it. Turns out, the universe might be more complex than three […]

Doomsday with a Smile.

The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

February 26, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Every beginning has an end, and every end has a beginning. For some of the more mundane everyday things around us, their existence from conception to completion is not too much of a mystery. However, things are not so straightforward when it comes to the cosmos. The universe may be one of the biggest and most complicated thing that we can conceptualise. So is it really that surprising that trying to understand both its beginning and it’s end is also big and complicated? I loved […]

Spoiler alert: we’re all going to die

The end of everything (Astrophysically speaking) by Katie Mack

July 28, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 2 Comments

Astrophysicist Katie Mack doesn’t mince her words. The universe will end. We just don’t know exactly how. In The end of everything she explores some of the scientific theories that attempt to answer the question. She does so in a pedagogical way, that’s (relatively) easy to understand even for laywomen like myself. You can tell she loves her job: her enthusiasm permeates the whole book, so even though her subject matter is rather grim, you cannot help but think that this is all very cool. […]

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