You’re invited to the next installment of Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy!

Title: A Snapshot of the Early Universe: The Cosmic Microwave Background

Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009

Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time (SL Time)

Location: The large amphitheater on the sim named StellaNova SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/StellaNova/213/210/32/

Abstract: If you look between all of the stars and all of the galaxies, and you get outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, and even outside the glow of the gas and dust in our own galaxy, you would see that everywhere the sky glows at a temperature of about 3 degrees above absolute zero. This is the cosmic microwave background, and it represents a snapshot of the aftermath of the Big Bang. In this talk, I’ll summarize how it was discovered, I’ll describe how it came to be a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, and I’ll tell you some of the very important things we’ve learned about our Universe from studying it.

This science talk is intended for the general public. All are welcome. It’s part of a series of popular talks called Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy. Dr. Knop was on one of the teams that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe. Feel free to ask questions or make comments. 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-web12.secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=2434573&date=1236412800