Given that the end of the universe will be sort of a letdown, Mack says a journey to the near future sounds far more appealing. So in principle it might not end up being that interesting, because you’d get there and all there is is just lots of cold, dark, empty space.” “It’s probably going to be the Heat Death, where the universe just continues to expand and expand, and things sort of fade away. “We’re probably not going to have a Big Crunch,” Mack says. Unfortunately for science fiction fans, the current thinking among scientists is that the end of the universe will be pretty boring. It would be kind of a neat light show, though it would also be super-lethal for anything that’s out there.” “The expansion of the universe stops, and reverses, and everything comes crashing back together. “The Big Crunch would be interesting to see,” Mack says. Both of those books, published in 19 respectively, assume a Big Crunch model of cosmology. Science fiction writers have long been fascinated by the end of the universe, and both Tau Zero by Poul Anderson and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams involve characters who witness the end of everything.
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