American astrophysicist and science communicator, Hawking Chair in Cosmology at Perimeter Institute, specializing in theoretical cosmology.
Contemplating the end helps us live more fully. It gives us perspective.
Even if the universe eventually ends, the beauty of its existence is timeless.
When we talk about the end of the universe, we talk about the nature of time and reality itself.
Cosmology tells us the story of where we came from and where we are going.
From heat death to the Big Rip, there are several ways everything could end.
The end of the universe might be a question of philosophy as much as physics.
The universe is not eternal. Sooner or later it will end. Knowing this, we can appreciate the present anew.