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Katie Mack: ‘Knowing how the universe will end is freeing’ – BBC News
Astrophysicist Katie Mack has been researching The End of Everything.
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Terms like “heat death”, “big rip” and “vacuum decay” don’t sound all that inviting. And they aren’t.
They describe a few of the theories scientists have about how our universe will one day die.
But when cosmologist Katie Mack thinks about the end of everything, it gives her peace.
“There’s something about acknowledging the impermanence of existence that is just a little bit freeing,” she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
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