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The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)

Autor Katie Mack
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2021

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.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141989587
ISBN-10: 0141989580
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist and one of the most popular scientists on Twitter, with more than 350,000 followers. Throughout her career as a researcher at Caltech, Princeton, Cambridge, Melbourne and now North Carolina State University, she has studied dark matter, black holes, cosmic strings and the formation of the first galaxies. As a science writer, she has been published by Slate, Time, and Scientific American, as well as having a regular column in Cosmos magazine.

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I found it helpful -- not reassuring, certainly, but mind-expanding -- to be reminded of our place in a vast cosmos.
Witty, clear and upbeat
An engrossing and often funny tour of all the ways our cosmos might come to a close. Mack's enjoyment of physics stands out - and is contagious. She describes primordial black holes as "awfully cute in a terrifying theoretical kind of way", antimatter as "matter's annihilation-happy evil twin" and the universe as "frickin' weird". All true, and Mack's explanations are entertaining and informative
Mack's humour and eclectic references (from Shakespeare to 'Battlestar Galactica') carry the book along.Even through discussions of cutting-edge science, the general reader is never bewildered
An enthusiastic celebration of the fact that we exist at all, here, right now, and are able to wonder about such stuff. . . By introducing concepts such as entropy and heat death with metaphors of unscrambling eggs or your coffee going cold, she takes the reader from the cosmos to the kitchen, and Mack's true skill is to do all this without a whiff of condescension or self-importance. . . while dealing with many of the same mind-bending cosmic conundrums, she succeeds brilliantly where Hawking failed
Tremendous... makes me laugh the kind of laugh that puts doom in perspective. How useful!I feel weirdly lulled when I read about all the many ravishing ways the universe might, and will, end
In which everything ends, or doesn't, with bangs and whimpers.Like many good serious books, it's also funny
A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor. What stands out most is Mack's pure enjoyment of physics, and it is contagious. . . If you need a moment to be distracted from everyday life and journey to the deep cosmic future,I highly recommend it
Mack is brilliant, and my neighbour's six-year-old daughter loves her. I love her. . . The cosiest way to readThe End of Everything, her fast-paced book about universal death, is as a murder mystery. In the middle of the carpet is our butchered universe. How did it die? Squashed ('The Big Crunch')? Boiled ('Heat Death')? Eviscerated ('The Big Rip')? Burst apart from every pore ('Vacuum Decay')? To one side, almost dancing with excitement, is Inspector Mack. . .
One of the most popular voices on science. . . Katie Mack achieves two improbable feats. First, she writes about the end of the universe with a jauntiness that makes it not actually that depressing. And second, she takes concepts in cosmology, string theory and quantum mechanics and makes them accessible
Exactly the sort of book I would have given to myself at 14, 24, 34 and honestly pretty much every age after.Weird science, explained beautifully
Joyous, beautiful and strange. . . filled with brilliant moments where you just have to stop and stare out of the window for a while
Everything dies, even the universe. But will it be a peaceful fading-away, or a dramatic cataclysm? Scientists don't know for sure, but Katie Mack providesan expert and entertaining guideto the possibilities.Who knew a book about the end of the universe could communicate so much passion for science?
This book teaches you that the universe could end at any moment, but is so good that you will be rooting for it not to-at least, not until you finish the book.Katie Mack's witty, lucid prose is endlessly delightful
An engrossing, elegant timeline of the cosmos. . . Mack sprinkles in delightful esoterica along the way, while providing a guide to some of the most plausible scenarios about the end of the universe
Mack is a great science communicatorand I suspected I was going to like this book as soon as I saw her name. I am pleased to say it does not disappoint
Mack createsan accessible, easy-to-digest guideto how the universe might end, speaking in a casual way that feels like sitting down for coffee with a good friend - one who can break down the physics of destruction into bite-sized delights
Excellent, far-reaching...the perfect antidote to the malaise of mundane worries
I found it helpful -- not reassuring, certainly, but mind-expanding -- to be reminded of our place in a vast cosmos.