Jonathan Pritchard, a cosmologist at Imperial College London whose work has run the gamut from cosmic inflation to the evolution of galaxies, finds hope in the idea that in some other distant, unconnected region, something might exist long after we’re nothing but waste heat. “Somewhere out there, there is a multiverse where stuff is always going on,” he says. “Emotionally, I like the idea of that.” But we still die, I say. He’s unfazed. “It’s not all about us, you know.”
