"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ..."
Details
Please note! - This meeting has a different schedule than previous meetings
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5:30 PM – Astro-talk over pizza and soft drinks.
6:00 PM -- The LECTURE will begin. Our speaker will be Dr. Joshua Burton.
The LECTURE title is "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ..." - the long, LONG future of our solar system, of the universe, and of sufficiently intelligent life.
In this lecture Dr. Burton uses the laws of physics to speculate as to how a sufficiently advanced civilization could exist and possibly thrive billions of years in the future when stars no longer exist.
8:30 PM-- If the weather permits there will be telescope viewing of gibbous moon and stars of the summer triangle.
Our speaker earned his Ph.D. in 1990 from UC Berkeley, where he worked with Mary K. Gaillard and Bruno Zumino during the exciting early years of supergravity and string theory. He has held research appointments at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Harvard, Brown, and Northwestern, publishing original work on supersymmetry, particle astrophysics, cosmology, and high-energy physics beyond the Standard Model. In 1997, a friend's start-up company lured him away from academia into software, and through acquisition he eventually wound up at IBM. He retired in 2016 to return to his true calling as a physics educator, and now teaches physics and runs the astronomy club at our award-winning local Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy.
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"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ..."