Discussion summary
The themes of the discussion include:
People have always wanted answers to the big questions.
How did the universe begin? Is there anyone out there?
Stephen Hawking asked the questions.
- So that we understand the solar system in some small way, it is appropriate to look much wider into the nature etc of the universe.
- The emphasis is on participation and questions and comments are fully welcomed at any stage. Don't expect to be given a presentation.
- We look at enormity of time, distance, numbers of objects, and more.
- The discussion can aim to improve the prospect of members having more than an "apples fall from trees" understanding of gravity.
- Light is immensely complicated Anything to do with space is complicated which is why Newton, Einstein and Hawking have all been in the limelight. Another aim is give members an overview of a few concepts.
- The Big Bang - 13.8 billion years ago. Mankind shows as a dot on scale where one foot is a billion years.
- The origins of life cannot be dated precisely, but there is evidence that bacteria-like organisms lived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago, and they may have existed even earlier, when the first solid crust formed, almost 4 billion years ago.
- What does the future of the Earth depend on? Think about it during any dull moments. We’ll discuss it.
- By then the little (?) green men are in the room.
- We meet a thing which is 96ft tall and fluent in 100 intergalactic languages. It is within the enormity discussion relating to how far away it “lives”.
- As the talk progresses, we look at the sheer numbers of places where life might have started. We look at where man might live when the end of Earth and Sun is in sight.
- All very expensive.
- This website is accessed via amateurscientifics.uk
- Pages are set up for projector display. They include plenty of blank space to enable ease of progression.