the end of everything astrophysically speaking book review

She has that manner of talking to an old friend. I have not read a more inviting scientist than Mack since Sagan. Others write a book hoping to popularize their theory. Some writers come off as arrogant and might even be the type of person who would kill off a planet. With all the science books out there, why choose Mack's book? Mack has something in her style that is unique. There are plenty of books on quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology for those interested in science but without the mathematical background. It's much the same way one can operate, understand, and repair a gasoline engine without knowing all the engineering mathematics that had gone into its creation. Math provides the proof for the writing, but if the reader is willing to trust that the author did all the math, it's all good. Not that I had anything against math, but I wanted to read for pleasure as well as to learn. It was the first of its kind for me - Hard science without the math. In the early 1980s, I read Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred Allan Wolf. Popular science books are a growing market. Her research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay, and the epoch of reionization. Mack is a theoretical cosmologist and Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack is a look at the end of the Universe as well as its history. ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe There is another theory which states that this has already happened. The End of Everything is a wildly fun, surprisingly upbeat ride to the farthest reaches of all that we know.'There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

The end of everything astrophysically speaking book review