Science
Katie Mack: ‘I didn’t anticipate being in a pop song when I went off to study physics’ – The Guardian
The cosmologist, author and Twitter sensation on ‘heat death’, getting heckled by Stephen Hawking – and being name-checked on a No 1 album
Katie Mack achieves two improbable feats with her new book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). First, she writes about the end of the universe with a jauntiness that makes it not actually that depressing. And second, she takes concepts in cosmology, string theory and quantum mechanics and makes them accessible. This gift for straight talking will be familiar to the 360,000 followers of Macks Twitter feed @AstroKatie through which the 39-year-old cosmologist and assistant professor…
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