Luckily for us, she said: “I don’t want people to get nervous about that. Every once in a while I get messages from people saying that they’re terrified of this.
“It’s extremely unlikely, as far as we know, that it could happen within the next, you, know, trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion years.
“So we don’t know for sure that it could happen and we don’t know for sure, you know, when it would happen and it would probably be a very long time from now.”
The bottom line of it all is that there are many things about the Universe that scientists still don’t know.
Dr Mack told Mr Rifkind she tried to convey this message through her book, highlighting how despite our best efforts we still don’t know how the Universe came to be and how it operates.