Still, we ought to be excited that we’re living in the first generation in the history of humanity that might be able to answer the question, how will the universe end? “It amazes me,” Lawrence Krauss said, “that, sitting in a place on the edge of nowhere in a not especially interesting time in the history of the universe, we can, on the basis of simple laws of physics, draw conclusions about the future of life and the cosmos. That’s something we should relish, regardless of whether we’re here for a long time or not.”
