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Katie Mack

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Dr Katherine (Katie) Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist who studies a range of questions in cosmology, the study of the universe from beginning to end. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University, where she is also a member of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster. Throughout her career she has studied dark matter, the early universe, galaxy formation, black holes, cosmic strings, and the ultimate fate of the cosmos. Alongside her academic research, she is an active science communicator and has been published in a number of popular publications such as Scientific American, The New York Times, Slate, Sky & Telescope, and Cosmos Magazine, where she is a columnist.

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Katie Mack There are a lot of books about the beginning of the Universe, but almost none about the end, so I thought it'd be fun to spend some time on that side …moreThere are a lot of books about the beginning of the Universe, but almost none about the end, so I thought it'd be fun to spend some time on that side of the timeline! Also I find the ultimate destruction of the cosmos to be strangely compelling. This is probably not a good sign.(less)
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“Everything you see is in the past, as far as you’re concerned. If you look up at the Moon, you’re seeing a little over a second ago. The Sun is more than eight minutes in the past. And the stars you see in the night sky are deep in the past, from just a few years to millennia.”
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“In fact, it’s possible that the only reason we can remember the past and not the future is that “things can only get worse” is a truth so universal that it shapes reality as we know it.”
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“There is simply no easy way to hold infinite space in a finite brain.”
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