The End of Everything
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Mack looks at five ways the universe could end, and the lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. --From publisher description.
Katherine Mack Book order
May 1, 1981
Dr. Katherine Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist who explores the universe from its beginning to its end. Her work delves into fundamental questions of cosmology, unraveling the mysteries of dark matter, the early universe, and galaxy formation. Beyond her academic pursuits, she is a celebrated science communicator, sharing her insights with a broad audience through articles in prominent publications.
- 2020
- 2020
You're going to die. The Earth will, one day, be toast. So too, our Sun will eventually shine its last. But what's next? The End of Everything is a unique exploration of the destruction of the cosmos. Drawing on cutting edge technology and theory, as well as hot-off-the-presses results from the most powerful telescopes and particle colliders, astrophysicist Katie Mack describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. Our universe could collapse in upon itself, or rip itself apart, or even - in the next five minutes - succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom. This fascinating, witty story of cosmic escapism examines a beautiful but unfamiliar physics landscape while sharing the excitement a leading astrophysicist feels when thinking about the universe and our place in it. Amid stellar explosions and bouncing universes, Mack shows that even though we puny humans have no chance of changing how it all ends, we can at least begin to understand it.
