Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy
You’re invited to the next episode of Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy.
This month, Dr. Knop is giving a talk titled “The Continuing Copernican Revolution: from Heliocentricity to the Cosmological Principle”. The abstract is below.
Date: Friday, September 5
Time: 8:00 AM Pacific Time (PDT, SL time)
Location: The Galaxy Dome floating above the sim named Spaceport Bravo
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/117/66/278
Abstract:
When humankind first tried to conceptualize cosmology, the structure of the Universe as a whole, they placed the Earth at the center of their models, with everything else centered on it. The Copernican model of the Solar System was revolutionary in that it moved the Sun to the center, with Earth as just another planet orbiting it. Since then, there have been multiple reconceptualizations of our understanding of the Universe as a whole that has continued to move us away from being at the center of reality, up through today’s Cosmological Principle which states, colloquially, “We are nowhere special.”
All are welcome. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.
This talk is part of a series of popular talks happening on the first Friday of each month, called Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy. Dr. Knop was on one of the teams that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Produced in association with the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA). For more information, see http://mica-vw.org/
Link on the Official SL Events calendar:
https://secure-web20.secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=1826523&date=1220598000
