Hur började universum? Hur kommer det att sluta? Och vad kommer att hända med oss?

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Vi människor är nykomlingar på jorden och i universum. Trots det har vi redan lyckats lära oss en hel del om hur allt uppstod och hur allt kan tänkas försvinna.

I två avsnitt ska vi ta reda på vad vi egentligen kan säga om alltings slut. Andra delen handlar om universums framtid och utveckling - om entropi, expansion och evighet.

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Torill Kornfeldt

Medverkande

• Jim Al-Khalili - professor i teoretisk fysik vid University of Surrey

• Brian Greene - professor i fysik och matematik vid University of Columbia

• Sabine Hossenfelder - fysikforskare vid Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies

• Charles Liu - professor i astrofysik vid City University of New York

• Jessica Abbott - lektor i biologi vid Lunds universitet

Böcker

• The World According to Physics av Jim Al-Khalili (2020)

• Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe av Brian Greene (2020)

• The Order of Time av Carlo Rovelli (2018)

• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics av Carlo Rovelli (2016)

• Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?) av Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (2009)

• What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics av Adam Becker (2018)

• The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself av Sean M. Carroll (2016)

• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray av Sabine Hossenfelder (2018)

Artiklar

• All Things Great and Small - Priyamvada Natarajan (NYROB, 2021)

• Cosmic Inflation - David Kaiser (LRB, 2014)

• Going Supernova - David Kaiser (LRB, 2011)

• The Future of Science, and the Universe - Steven Weinberg (NYROB, 2001)

• Fine-Tuned for Life - John Leslie (LRB, 1998)

• Will Earth's next supercontinent assemble through the closure of the Pacific Ocean? - Chuan Huang et. al. (National Science Review, 2022)

• Heavy ions and quark-gluon plasma (CERN)

• Var är allt litium? -  GREGORY RUCHTI (FoF, 2013)

• A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold - Joshua Sokol (Quanta, 2017)

• Tracing gold’s cosmic origin story - Ken Croswell (PNAS, 2021)

• Some of the universe's heavier elements are created by neutron star collisions - DANIEL CLERY (Science, 2019)

• Neutron star collisions are a “goldmine” of heavy elements, study finds - Jennifer Chu (MIT, 2021)

• The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do humans have only 1 billion years left on Earth? - Natalie Sauer (The Conversation, 2015)

• Swansong biospheres II: the final signs of life on terrestrial planets near the end of their habitable lifetimes - Jack T. O'Malley-James et. al. (International Journal of Astrobiology, 2014)

• Ultra Rare Diamond Suggests Earth’s Mantle Has an Ocean’s Worth of Water - Stephanie Pappas (Scientific American, 2022)

• Uråldrig diamant visar på rekordmycket vatten i jordens inre - Hanna Källstig (SVT, 2022)

• Hydrous peridotitic fragments of Earth’s mantle 660 km discontinuity sampled by a diamond - Tingting Gu, et. al. (Nature Geoscience, 2022)

• Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw confront the black hole information paradox - Abigail Beall (New Scientist, 2022)

Ljud och film

• A better description of entropy (Steve Mould, 2016)

• Are You a Boltzmann Brain? (PBS Spacetime, 2017)

• The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy (PBS Spacetime, 2018)

• Entropy (Sixty Symbols, 2009)

• Entropy - Professor's Response (Sixty Symbols, 2009)

• Entropy Confusion (Sixty Symbols, 2014)

• The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - with Katie Mack (The Royal Institution, 2020)

• Until the End of Time: Brian Greene in Conversation with Janna Levin (Pioneer Works, 2020)

• Until the End of Time | Brian Greene (Talks at Google, 2020)

• Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science (Sean Carroll, 2018)

• The Beginning and End of the Universe (BBC-dokumentär med Jim Al-Khalili, ej tillgänglig online)

• Priyamvada Natarajan: Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy (Long Now, 2017)

• The End of the Universe (Supermassive Podcast, 2021)

• The End of the Habitable Zone (PBS Spacetime, 2018)

• The Death of the Sun (PBS Spacetime, 2018)

• Creating the Elements (Sixty Symbols, 2010) 

• Brian Cox explains the Hubble Law (2012)

• The End of the Universe: A Conversation with Katie Mack (Perimeter Institute, 2020)

Musik

• Star Hopper - The Running Blue Cloud

• Clint Mansell - The Last Man

• Max Richter - De Profoundis

• Carter Burwell - Fade Out The End

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Problem After Problem

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Star Hopper - In Front of a Red Supergiant

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells

• Star Hopper - The Oort Cloud

• Martin D Fowler - Delaying the Inevitable

• Daniel Lanolis - Space Kay

• Michael Andrews - Peter and Sylvie

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Jon Brion - Coincidences

• Cliff Martinez - The Birds Are Doing That

• Jon Brion - Cubes

• Star Hopper - A Celestial Marble

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Odd

• Star Hopper - Through The Heliopause

• Sophie Harris - Crooked Durham

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Kronos Quartet - Galaxies

• Helios - Even Today

• Calexico - Untitled III - remix by Two Lone Swordsmen

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Jesper Kyd - Tension in the Nest

• Cliff Martinez - I'm In The Pink

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Podington Bear - Dry Air

• Star Hopper - Leaving The Solar System

• Podington Bear - Cm

• Hans Zimmer - Afraid of Time

• Podington Bear - Vibe Drive

• Star Hopper - Pending Supernova

• Vince Pope - Who are you

• Sophie Harris - Driving to Prison

• Philip Glass - Truman Sleeps

• The Doors - The End (live)