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What does the end of the world look like to you? Nuclear war? The technological singularity? Maybe it's a climate catastrophe or some asteroid lurking in deep space. Perhaps it’s fire and brimstone, seven trumpets and judgement.

For all of human history, we’ve imagined the apocalypse as an event. Something loud and cinematic, the final chapter where humanity fights valiantly against the dying of the light.

00:00 The One Physics Theory That Terrifies Scientists
01:52 What is false vacuum decay?
09:00 A Universe in Decay
16:18 Impermanence
20:35 A Cosmic Horror
25:32 A Changing Universe
30:58 Delicate and Precise

Aperture explores the ideas shaping how we think — philosophy, psychology,
and the hidden forces behind human behavior. New perspectives, every week.

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