TEDxLosGatos - Sandra Faber - Our cosmic past, our cosmic future
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Dr. Sandra Faber, Ph.D, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz Sandra Faber's dream as a kid was to understand where the Universe came from. After a lifetime of studying cosmology at UC Santa Cruz, she feels she has some answers. Faber helped to discover dark matter in the Universe, and, with UCSC colleagues Joel Primack and Geo... Read more
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- -: TEDxLosGatos - Sandra Faber - Our cosmic past, our cosmic future
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Sandra Faber, Ph.D, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz Sandra Faber's dream as a kid was to understand where the Universe came from. After a lifetime of studying cosmology at UC Santa Cruz, she feels she has some answers. Faber helped to discover dark matter in the Univer...
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- -: TEDxBratislava - Norbert WERNER -- Beating hearts of galaxies
June 30, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Norbert is from Roznava, Slovakia, and he conducts an astronomical research of black holes and cosmic webs at Stanford University in California. He's one of the few recipients of the prestigious NASA grant. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, T...
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- -: Garik Israelian: What's inside a star?
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet friendly to life. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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- -: Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes
March 15, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding so...
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- -: God's Mechanics: The Religious Life of Techies
August 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Google Tech Talk August 3, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ How does religion work in a culture shaped by science and technology? How do scientists and engineers practice their religions? How in particular does a Jesuitbrother, and an MIT graduate with a PhD in planetary s...
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- -: Richard Dawkins - Applying Darwinian Evolution to Physics
October 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/07/Richard_Dawkins_The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weighs the possibilities of the anthropic principle as it applies to physics. He also presents the theory that universes are bound to Darwinian selection, passing on tra...
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- -: Between Two Theories: Humanity's Place in the Cosmos
May 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/30/Lord_Martin_Rees_Life_and_the_Cosmos Cambridge University cosmologist Lord Martin Rees describes the two domains of physical science as an ouroboros: the microscopic, which obeys quantum laws, and the astronomical, which follows Einstein's relativity....
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- -: Hubble's Legacy: Imaging the Beauty of the Universe
June 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/23/Ian_Morison_Hubbles_Heritage Gresham College astronomy professor Ian Morison presents stunning Hubble Space Telescope images of "the most beautiful objects that we have in our Milky Way and beyond." ----- The lecture considers the legacy of both Edw...
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- -: Multiverse Doppelgangers: Do Many Versions of You Exist?
October 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/partner/IdeaFestival Theoretical astrophysicist Suketu Bhavsar examines the probability that many versions of you exist in a universe that expands infinitely. ----- One of the more intriguing and bizzare theories concerning the world we live in involves the co...
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