How It All Ends March 21, 2011

How It All Ends: From You to the Universe. The End? With a musical subtext and a light approach to a heavy subject, Professor Chris Impey explores endings, from the proximate to the distant. Humans are unlikely to be exempt from the extinction that has been the fate of all species on Earth, but we hope that it will not be by our own hand. Eventually, whatever life is found on Earth will be faced with the decay of the biosphere and the death of the Sun. On even longer timescales, the lights will go out in the cosmos as all stars are extinguished. The final curtain comes with the evaporation of black holes and the decay of space-time itself. Chris Impey will be signing copies of his book How It Ends at the lecture. Copies will be available at the Stellar Emporium. Registration required--please see the website.