Why did Brandy love this book?
Everything ends. We know that; we might even know that our world—this little blue-green planet—will end. But here’s the thing; the Universe had a beginning, and it will have an end, too. That’s just a fascinating and crazy thought; everything… ALL THE THINGS… started off for reasons we can scarcely understand, and will eventually close up shop. It sounds too big to contemplate, but guess what: today, right now, we can still “see” the dawn of the cosmos. It filters into our reality as a background noise, the ripple that flung out from creation itself, and science can measure it!
In fact, Katie Mack writes that physicists can explain the history of the universe from the first tiny fraction of a second until today. (You thought the dinosaurs were a long time ago? Imagine looking at the afterglow of the Big Bang… we CAN!) I invited Katie to join me…
5 authors picked The End of Everything as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST
'Weird science, explained beautifully' - John Scalzi
'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor' Leah Crane, New Scientist
From one of the 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 cosmology
We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story?…