Lord Rees: Life in the cosmos

Please note that the lecture proper begins at the 5:00 minute point in the video.

Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, delivers the inaugural Madingley Lecture on 10 January 2011 at the Institute of Continuing Education (www.ice.cam.ac.uk ).

The lecture is chaired by Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and introduced by Dr Rebecca Lingwood, Director of Continuing Education.

We have come to understand how, starting from some mysterious 'beginning' about 13.7 billion years ago, the first atoms, stars and planets emerged - and how, on at least one planet around at least one star, life began and a complex biosphere evolved. What were the key stages in this process? How did the laws of nature allow such complexity to emerge, and what can we infer about the overall scale and structure of the cosmos? And what lies in the far future? Will life from Earth spread far beyond? Or is life already widespread?

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[samjenkinssam]

love the video man

[rodswebdesign]

brilliant video

[jessyjessy4]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[jayejayeee]

very interesting thanks

[SteveDutchy]

very interesting lecture

[takeyourpillz]

@Treadlightlyful you think hes wrong? dont make me laugh, an american criticising another persons intelligence, i really have seen it all now.

[takeyourpillz]

such a genius, pity there arent alot more of him

[ogenopen]

thank you, a day without learning was not 2day:)

[AlainG80]

1:00:12 Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . by Philip Plait

[ImaginedWriter]

I enjoyed the jab at creationists at around 54mins. A very good and intriguing lecture, and thank you for the thumbs up to Science Fiction writers.