Many of themare, of course, remote and not really a prospect that anyone has to reallyworry about day to day. In a sense, worrying about these big anddramatic endings, it's almost a relief. We, in our culture, have these difficult problems like the economy andwhether our kids are going to get jobs, and whether the Earth is going to gettoo hot for us to live comfortably. Impey: I can understand the human nature ofit. :Do you think we have a morbid fascination with endings? When I writea book, I want to be able to learn a lot of stuff, so I like the idea ofendings because I can go from how we die to howthe universe dies, and along the way learn a lot of biology and some of thesubjects I'm not as familiar with. I'm,in general, aware that this accelerating universe scenario raises someinteresting questions about what it's going to look like billions of years fromnow. I do cosmology, so my research is distant galaxies and quasars. Impey: There are very few people who doresearch on endings and astronomical endings, but it became a little sideinterest. :"How It Ends" examines the science of endings.
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