Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much more, she describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. But what happens at the end of the story?With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. He most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important ideas in cosmologyWe know the universe had a beginning.
He lives in Davis, California.The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) Book Information: In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed New York 2140, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. You can find her on Twitter as and on Instagram as Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. Alongside her academic research, she is an active science communicator and has been published in a number of popular publications such as Scientific American, The New York Times, Slate, Sky & Telescope, and Cosmos Magazine, where she is a columnist. Throughout her career she has studied dark matter, the early universe, galaxy formation, black holes, cosmic strings, and the ultimate fate of the cosmos. Katherine (Katie) Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist who studies a range of questions in cosmology at North Carolina State University, where she is also a member of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster.
Mack will be joined by Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss The End of Everything, which has been names a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, and a Best Book Of The Year by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly.ĭr.
In The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack takes readers on a mind-bending tour through five of the cosmos’s possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, the Big Rip, Vacuum Decay, and the Bounce. But what happens to the universe at the end of the story? And what does it mean for us now? With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. Harvard Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book StoreĬontact know the universe had a beginning.
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