Fred Adams – Will the Universe Ever End?

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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Fred Adams is a professor of physics at the University of Michigan. His work is in the general area of theoretical astrophysics with a focus on the study of star formation and cosmology.

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