Ken Olum - Will the Universe Ever End?

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What does it mean to ask about the end of the universe? Can the universe even have an end? What would end? In the far, far future, what happens to stars, galaxies, and black holes? What about mass and energy, even space and time? What’s the ‘Big Crunch’ and the ‘Big Rip’? And what if there are multiple universes, will the multiverse ever end?

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Ken Olum is a Research Professor in the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University, where he has worked since 1997. He is a member of the NANOGrav collaboration, which searches for low-frequency gravitational waves via precision timing of pulsars.

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