Lecture: The Universe in Free Fall – September 15, 2022

“THE UNIVERSE IN FREE FALL”

September 15, 2022, at 8:30 p.m.
Hosted byVINCENT GUILLET– AGES 14 AND UP

Castelnau-le-Lèz Youth and Culture Center

What is the most important force in the Universe—the one that gives it its structure, forms galaxies, stars, planets, and even black holes, and explains the essence of the history of matter in the 13.7-billion-year-old Universe? Gravity! Tracing the history of this discovery, thisintroductory and mind-boggling lecture on the Universe will reveal how a force as simple as gravity can give rise to such a wealth of structures of matter in the Universe, as revealed by the largest telescopes. And how astronomers, despite these successes, havebeen forced to hypothesize the existence of another type of matter, fundamentally different from the matter we know and which constitutes theSun, Earth, or living beings: a so-called “dark” matter whose nature still eludes us, although its properties are increasingly understood.

Free admission –

On the agenda: 
45-minute lecture
+ Sweet snack
+ Observations by Vaonis

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