NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST OBSERVER NEW SCIENTIST BBC FOCUS INDEPENDENT
AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated
discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor' Leah Crane New Scientist
'Weird science explained beautifully' - John Scalzi 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 how small
tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. Our
universe could collapse in upon itself or rip itself apart or even - in the next five minutes
- succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom. This captivating story of cosmic
escapism examines a mesmerizing yet unfamiliar physics landscape while sharing the excitement a
leading astrophysicist feels when thinking about the universe and our place in it. Amid stellar
explosions and bouncing universes Mack shows that even though we puny humans have no chance of
changing how it all ends we can at least begin to understand it. The End of Everything is a
wildly fun surprisingly upbeat ride to the farthest reaches of all that we know.
