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# The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) Hardcover – Illustrated, August 4, 2020

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    The End of the Universe can be a lot of fun
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2020*

Katie Mack’s timely (it’s 2020 after all) survey of the various ways the Universe might end, based on current physics, was a delightful read. It is an interesting and fun book. We learn about the Big Crunch (the Universe shrinking back), the Heat Death, or rather the high-entropy death, the Big Rip, Vacuum decay, or the “quantum bubble of death” if you want to call it that, and the “bounce”. The bounce is a bouncing Universe with repeated Big Bangs. This could result from a much larger eternal ekpyrotic Universe where colliding 3D branes result in repeated Big Bangs. Personally, I am hoping for the quantum bubble of death.To understand where the various ideas regarding the end of the Universe come from, you need to understand some of the physics and the cosmology. We learn something about CMB, or the Cosmic Microwave Background, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, Planck Time, GUTs, Nucleosynthesis, the standard model, de Sitter Space, black holes, electroweak symmetry breaking, the Higgs Boson and the Higgs field, multiverses, and much more. Perhaps most importantly, we learn about dark matter and dark energy, which are important concepts that have greatly changed cosmology over the last few years. Chapter 2 on the Big Bang reminded me a lot about an old book by Stephen Weinberg, the first 3 minutes. However, Katie Mack puts a modern spin on it and goes much further beyond our Universe. I was intrigued to hear that it might be possible to communicate between different Universes in a multiverse using gravity, or gravity waves.The book is written for laymen, and I found it to be between Neil De Grasse Tyson / Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking in difficulty level. The book covers a lot of concepts and theories but does so concisely, simply and not in a mathematical way. Not so simply though that it is misleading. I am an Engineer with an undergrad degree in physics so I may not be the best person to judge whether this is an easy read for laymen, but I believe it is. I am very interested in these kinds of topics, and I read all popularized books on cosmology, modern physics, the standard model, that I can find. This was one of the most fun books that I’ve ever read.

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    There's Humor in the end of existence
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2020*

Katie Mack does a fantastic job at giving us a run through of the theories for the end of well.. everything. As scary as such a concept might be, and not just understanding the mechanics behind it, it is also quite liberating. Reading this book helps take some of the weight we place on ourselves daily thinking that the reality we live in is some sort of permanent thing. Whereas that is far from the case. Everything can and will eventually decay. Me, You, this keyboard I'm currently typing on, etc. At least Katie Mack is giving us some means with which to understand the concepts.P.S. As a lover of existential crisis's I couldn't be more happy with this book. It gives a little anxiety but in a more defined and fascinating way. 10/10 does not do this book justice. Grab a copy and see for yourself. :)

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    Over My Head
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2020*

I have no scientific background, but I try, a couple times a year to address my illiteracy in this area by picking up a book on a topic beyond my usual areas of interest.  I bought this book for that reason, and honestly, it did not work this time.  If you actually are an astrophysicist you may well be fascinated, but this is a field where so much is conjecture that I was swamped.  The prose itself is not the problem. The book is written in a breezy, easy to follow style and there is very little jargon that is not explained.  So,  I don't feel competent enough to dissuade expert readers from this, but I have to say the publishers promote this book as something every reader can follow, and that is just not the case.

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