THE END OF EVERYTHING

We know the universe had a beginning. 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. Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much more, she describes h ow small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. Our universe could collapse in u pon itsel...[Llegir més]