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    Posted on August 16th, 2015 Lynn Powers No comments

    Save the date!  August 20, 2015. 7:00 p.m. at the Hagar Auditorium.

    “From the Big Bang to Black Holes: Time, the Universe, and Everything”
    Speaker: Janna Levin

    Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University
    Author of “How the Universe Got Its Spots” and “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines”
    And a link to Janna’s TEDx talk:
    Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes | Talk Video | TED.com
    We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack — a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding soundwalk through the universe.

     

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