Big History began in the 1980s at Macquarie University, Harvard University, and Moscow State University. It involves experts from across the natural and social sciences (a research cadre including cosmologists, geologists, biologists, archaeologists, historians, economists, and much more) to craft a scientific knowledge as a narrative. While the initial presentation was a brief 20 minute rundown of the secular scientific future for an unfamiliar interdisciplinary audience, this paper will attempt to unpack what was said in more detail.ĢBig History is a field that researches broad patterns in deep time from the start of the Universe to the present. Rather than exploring a mythological or religious depiction of the end of the world, I delivered a talk on the possible obliteration of the human race, the death of the Earth and Sun, and the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe. As a scholar in the interdisciplinary field of Big History, which explores broad trends in the history of the Universe from the Big Bang to modern day, it fell to me to discuss the end of the world in a scientific context and introduce the principles of foresight which we have also incorporated into Big History (Christian, 2004 Spier, 2010 Baker, 2019). 1The thematic focus of the Atlantys conference was to explore the “end of the world” in all its cultural and disciplinary contexts.
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