Episode 78: The Heat Death of the Universe with Ken Liu
Posted Sep 9, 2018 by bn
stuff stops working and never starts again.
(image from http://creativity103.com)
As Much as everyone wants to know how it all began, we are also fascinated by how its going to end.
The question itself is complicated and has a lot of different answers. Illness, Accident, starvation, extinction, the climate will stop supporting us, the sun will expand and we will spiral into it… but in the largest of pictures, the universe will no longer be a place which can support the existence of complex life.
Today our guest is Ken Liu, who first drew my attention as the translator of Liu Cixin’s “three body problem” trilogy. But Ken is a marvelous powerful author in his on right. His award-winning short story “Paper Menagerie” made everyone cry (it’s on Escape Pod, if you want to listen). His (in progress) epic trilogy “The Dandelion Dynasty” is like a heartbreaking, steampunk Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Physicists: Dr. Katie Mack, Dr. Robert McNees
Intro Music: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Exit Music: John Vanderslice
