A review by andrew_petro
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), by Katie Mack
5.0
Quite good. Interesting. Learned a lot.
There’s something deeply reassuring about the ideas that there are conceptually adjacent universes, offset in time or 5th dimensional space, where things played out just slightly differently.
There’s something reassuring about the idea that many billions of years from now, on the ultimate universal scale, the slate wipes clean. All mistakes emphatically, permanently, spectacularly forgotten. This isn’t a reason not to do good and be kind here and now, of course. Kind. Brave. Curious. Thoughtful. More authentic and supportive in this brief wonderful window in which we can be anything.
And also, no attempt to leave a legacy extends beyond the Big Crunch. Or competing end state.
A solid example of effective science communication of the outreach genre. Symmetry. Experiments. Physics is indeed cool.
I especially enjoyed, in the audio book, the parts read by the author.
There’s something deeply reassuring about the ideas that there are conceptually adjacent universes, offset in time or 5th dimensional space, where things played out just slightly differently.
There’s something reassuring about the idea that many billions of years from now, on the ultimate universal scale, the slate wipes clean. All mistakes emphatically, permanently, spectacularly forgotten. This isn’t a reason not to do good and be kind here and now, of course. Kind. Brave. Curious. Thoughtful. More authentic and supportive in this brief wonderful window in which we can be anything.
And also, no attempt to leave a legacy extends beyond the Big Crunch. Or competing end state.
A solid example of effective science communication of the outreach genre. Symmetry. Experiments. Physics is indeed cool.
I especially enjoyed, in the audio book, the parts read by the author.