Incline for Beach Time & Dark Matter

We ventured back to Incline Village for another talk at TERC (UC Davis' Tahoe Environmental Research Center) but not before catching rays on the lakeshore.



The sky was exceptionally beautiful.
This was the evening's description that got Steve intrigued:

"Dark Side of the Universe What is dark matter? This elusive “stuff” makes up a quarter of the universe. Join Dr. Maruša Bradac to hear about research on the composition of the Universe, properties of dark matter, and the latest discoveries about the Universe’s past. Dr. Maruša Bradac, originally from Slovenia, is a physics professor at UC Davis. The tools of her trade are telescopes in space, including the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, the future James Webb Space Telescope, and also on the ground, the Keck Telescope in Hawaii."
Dr. Bradac was very entertaining (for an astrophysicist). She covered everything from the Big Bang (13.8 billion years ago) to last year's Nobel Prize in Physics, won for the observation of gravitational waves.
I really can't even begin to understand all she covered. However, Steve was happy and seemed to 'get it'!
 
This very educational presentation used humor and great graphics. Do I know more about Dark Matter now? Yes. Just don't ask me to repeat what I learned. It was an excellent excursion to the other side of the Lake.

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1 comments:

Four Points Bulletin said...

It just hit me, do you know what Tahoe could use? Some net fisherman, like the fisherman in Thailand. Wouldn't that be pretty?
Not that it NEEDS it.

February 10, 2018 at 7:41 PM

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