On today's episode of the Hyperthesis, we discuss the deep dark topic of the heat death of the Universe. Before we dive in, Liam discusses preparation for his upcoming PhD candidacy exam with Pheely and Patrick weighing in about their own upcoming exams and the expectations that come with it. We also briefly discuss the change in rotation of the Earth's core, something recently measured by geologists. On that topic, our final story is about the layers of the Earth, peeling them back like an onion as we delve deeper. In our main topic, we discuss everything from metastable states and phase transitions and to entropy and information theory to explain the eventual heat death of the universe.