End of Everything

Five Ways the Universe Might End

240 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2020 by Penguin Books, Limited.

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4 stars (14 reviews)

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Engaging read for general audiences on what we know about the history and future of the universe

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An engaging read for the general audience about what we currently know about the history and structure of the universe and what that knowledge -- and the pieces we don't know -- might mean for its future and eventual end. Katie Mack writes in a casual, entertaining style. It's clear she finds all of this absolutely fascinating. And she sprinkles the writing with funny stories and quotes and side notes to get across the basics of quantum mechanics, Higgs fields, high-energy physics and the like without delving too much into the math. But the math, and the measurements, are important, because as it turns out, very small changes in how things work at the quantum level can have major implications on the universe's ultimate fate.

The last time I read about this topic in anything resembling depth was about a decade ago. Since then there've been major discoveries in …

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Ничего нового или неожиданного, но полезно иметь большинство гипотез современной науки на тему "как может закончиться вселенная" под одной обложой; стиль письма определил бы скорее всё же как "с огоньком", чем "сверхдлинный восторженный пост с реддита", но вы предупреждены и о проблесках второго если что.

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4 stars

All the ways the Universe can end, and it's ok

I didn't realise that there are so many ways for the Universe to end. I vaguely knew about some possibilities, and they remain distant possibilities. Kate Mack's book is a wonderful exploration of the possible ends of our Universe, and wonderfully intelligible for non-physicists.

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