Cosmos #10 Edge of Forever
Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, Universityof Wisconsin - Green Bay
Despite the sweeping topic, a fairly weak episode.
"Current Scientific Story"
Internal motion of Galaxies
- Rotation
- Spiral Arms
- Doppler Effect
Mt. Wilson Telescope
- Closed 1985
- Milton Humanson and Edwin Hubble
- Mechanics of driving large telescopes
- Compensation for Earth's Rotation
- Galaxy too faint to see visually
- Red Shift - Expansion of Universe
"Curvature of Space"
- Flatland analogy - Edwin Abbott
- Tesseract
Expansion of Space
- privileged frame of reference
- Is our universe closed? (Black Hole?)
- What happened before Big Bang?
- Creation ex nihilo
- "Why not save a step?"
- "Questions once treated only in religion and myth"
Hindu cosmology
- Big Bang - Modern scientific creation myth?
- Cycles in Hindu belief
- Only major faith to guess at time Scale of universe
Ultimate fate of universe
Radio Astronomy
- Echo of big bang (cosmic background)
- Jocelyn Bell - first noticed the evidence for quasars
- Ours is first generation with chance to find some answers
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Created 13 January 1998, Last Update Last Update 15 January 2020