![]() ![]() We asked Mack to unpack a few of the juiciest apocalyptic scenarios in The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), which is out from Scribner on Tuesday. I don’t know how to respond to that other than just laughing at it, because it’s not personal.” “It very much upends our notion of stability in our world. “It’s like the universe is laughing at this idea that we can have an orderly and safe environment in which to live,” she added. “I think all you can do is go to the absurd in the sense that there’s no way to conceptualize this stuff with daily experience.” “I get asked a lot: How do you deal with thinking about these big topics, like ultimate destruction? How does it affect your outlook?” Mack said. The senescent universe will be a time and place totally alien from our own surroundings, far more fantastical than any the feverish apocalyptic visions of myth or fiction. ![]() ![]() You will be long dead, as will Earth and the Sun. “It doesn’t end well,” she warned in a call.īefore you scribble “end of universe” onto the list of things keeping you up at night, take comfort in the fact that the really bad stuff will happen in the far-future of the cosmos, at least tens of billions of years from now. ![]()
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