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Old 04-02-2013, 05:43 PM
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Interesting talks at UQ in February

'A Universe from Nothing'
Professor Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University

Wednesday 20th February
6:15pm for a 6:30pm start to 7:30pm
Abel Smith Building 23, Auditorium 1
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Free entrance

The question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has been asked for millennia by people who speculate on the need for a creator of our Universe. Today, exciting scientific advances provide new insight into this cosmological mystery: Not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing.

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'The Accelerating Universe'
Professor Brian Schmidt - Astrophysicist and 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics


Thursday 21st February
12:30 - 1:30pm
Raybould Lecture Theatre 1 Building 50, Room T203
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Free entrance

In 1998 two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating, a startling discovery that suggests that more than 70% of the cosmos is contained in a previously unknown form of matter, called Dark Energy.

The 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics, Brian Schmidt, leader of the High-Redshift Supernova Search Team, will describe this discovery and explain how astronomers have used observations to trace our universe's history back more than 13 billion years, leading them to ponder the ultimate fate of the cosmos.

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Old 05-02-2013, 12:45 AM
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Wow thats awesome. Thanks Rick.
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Old 14-02-2013, 08:13 PM
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Is anybody from IIS going to this??? I'm going by myself and would love some astro company
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Sorry, the Lawrence Krauss talk, forgot to specify
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Old 15-02-2013, 02:26 AM
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Unfortunately I cant make it and had to give my seat up, im a bit, very, devo'd, but cant find a replacement superstar for my 6 - midnight shift. There should be some more IIS members going so good luck Shelley
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