![]() ![]() ![]() Scientists use a supercomputer to build a simulation of the known universe Virtual universe machine models galaxies to learn about dark matter Nobel Prize awarded to physicists who changed our understanding of the cosmos Don’t let the universe-is-ending existential dread get you down, she seems to say. It’s much more fun than you’d expect a book about the end of the universe to be. To keep you from getting stuck in the quark-gluon plasma (don’t worry, she explains it), Mack keeps everything accessible and conversational. She cheerfully takes readers through five astrophysics apocalypses: The big crunch, heat death, the big rip, vacuum decay, and the big bounce. Its start can tell cosmologists like her a lot about its inevitable end. Katie Mack starts with the Big Bang - the theory of how the universe began. ![]() ![]() In her new book, The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking), theoretical astrophysicist Dr. “There’s a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory of falling from a great height.” If reflecting on the universe gives you a shiver, thinking about its end can make you quake. “Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us,” the late atronomer Carl Sagan once said. ![]()
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