NOBEL PRIZE WINNER DR BRIAN SCHMIDT TO SPEAK IN ALBURY
Does time seem to fly these days? Is everything going faster and faster? In 1998 two teams of scientists traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years. They thought that the acceleration would be slowing but what they found caused a major rethink of what was the accepted science at the time. They discovered that the Universe is accelerating at a faster and faster rate. This led them to the discovery that that more than 70% of the cosmos is contained in a form of matter called Dark Energy.
At the moment Dark Energy and Dark Matter are words used to describe something that Is not properly understood and are the subject of intensive research as scientists try to understand our Universe.
The three scientists who made this groundbreaking discovery, Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2011.
Australian scientist Dr Brian Schmidt from the Australian National University’s Mt Stromlo observatory will describe this discovery and how scientists have traced the history of the universe back more than 13 billion years, almost to the time of the Big Bang. What will be the ultimate fate of the Universe?
Dr Schmidt is a fellow of several science academies and is leading Mt Stromlo’s effort to build the SkyMapper telescope to compile a digital map of the southern skies.
Brian is married with two children and lives at Sutton in the ACT. He is an amateur winemaker and loves to cook. His first visit to Albury was in 1985 and on that occasion he came as French horn player.
Come and hear Dr Schmidt speak in National Science Week as part of the 6th Border Stargaze hosted by the Astronomical Society of Albury Wodonga and Charles Sturt University. His lecture will commence at 7pm at the Albury Entertainment Centre and is open to all.
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David Thurley
President
Astronomical Society of Albury Wodonga
Phone 02 6040 3704
or 04 1869 0142
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