Will space-time blow apart? (Image: Ashley Cooper/Visual Unlimited/Getty)
IMAGINE one day you wake up and look at yourself in the mirror only to find that something is terribly wrong. You look grainy and indistinct, like a low-quality image blown up so much that the features are barely recognisable. You scream, and the sound that comes out is distorted too, like hearing it over a bad phone line. Then everything goes blank.
Welcome to the big snap, a new and terrifying way for the universe to end that seems logically difficult to avoid.
Dreamed up by Massachusetts Institute of Technology cosmologist …
