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Lead book review

Will the universe end with a bang or a bounce?

Alexander Masters speculates on how the universe will end

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) Katie Mack

Allen Lane, pp.240, 20

The cosiest way to read The End of Everything, Katie Mack’s fast-paced book about universal death, is as a murder mystery. Everything in spacetime, including the reader’s understanding of much of the story, is in the shadows. Black holes, quarks and gluons, Cepheid variables, the Concordance Model? Mere words, strewn across the floor.

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