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    Jul 16, 2020 4 minutes

    The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

    Katie Mack

    Allen Lane £20 • HB

    Cosmology has allowed us to piece together the history of our Universe and explain how we got to where we are today. But have you ever wondered how it will end? The End of Everything explores five possible scenarios for its ultimate demise: the ‘big crunch’, ‘heat death’, the ‘big rip’, ‘vacuum decay’ and the ‘ekpyrotic scenario’.

    The author seamlessly weaves her way through the essential physics you’ll need to understand each Universe-ending possibility. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of, say, the ekpyrotic scenario because Mack gives us a readily graspable explanation of this and many other concepts. Given the compact size of the

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