The Dawn of Creation: The First 2 Billion Years (mirrored)

(I personally don't think this is the best title for this talk, but it's still worth listening to!)

Much thanks to UC Berkeley for making this talk (and HUNDREDS of others) freely available at:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu


"the default license attached to media recordings for disctribution is Creative Commons - non-commercial, attribution, no derivatives"

here is the license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/


The beauty of the universe, the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and most of the stars, got its start in the first billion years after the beginning of time, the Big Bang. Every deep picture of the sky reveals thousands of these galaxies, each made up of billions of stars like the Sun. The intricate spiral structures of the Milky Way as well as the very smooth distributions of the larger elliptical galaxies took shape slowly, building up from many pieces in the detritus of the initial explosion governed by the dark matter that we can sense but still not see. Modern technical wonders like the Hubble Space Telescope have made it possible to look back to a time when the universe looked very different than it does today, when the first galaxies were created and the universe developed structure seen as patterns in the galaxies apparent today. This years Sackler Lecture will look back to the first 2 billion years. With Steven Beckwith.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• dark
• matter
• energy
• uc
• berkeley
• webcast
• astronomy
• cosmology
• galaxy
• galaxies
• hubble
• space
• telescope
• fritz
• zwicky

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

You gotta hate an introduction of an introduction... I hope one day to see an introduction of an introduction of an introduction to the speaker you came to hear in the first place...

Maybe one day there will be so many pointless twats that when the actually speaker comes on it will go straight to questions... ... about the first introducer's introduction not being praise worthy enough about the second introducer...?

At the very least, when posting on YouTube, cut this oxygen wastage...!

[RabidApe]

I would, but that would violate the license;

"No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work."

:I

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

Ah fair enough, only jokin'... It's so annoying you can't skip the parp and that it happens very time...

Got to the crux now, very interesting...

[RabidApe]

you can also do one of these:

7:06

(it only works in comments, unfortunately. So you can't really help YOURSELF, but you can maybe leave one for the next person who watches...)

;D

[smkipus]

Thumbs up enable this thread

[wildanS]

@smkipus

That comment is sooo lame in 2012.

[smkipus]

I like the part where he took an arrow to the knee

[TootMaimington]

I was going to start talking but then I took an introduction to the knee

[bdogshredder]

He FINALLY gets up there, then "it's a tremendous honor bla bla bla"

[frufitta]

Skip (at leat eight minutes) of the start.

[dancepheus]

for a moment I thought that was Cliff Richard doing the intro

[sieracki001]

Ted Danzen with a beard?

[MAC616]

@macnutz- 'Bible book' haha what an idiot.

[neutronstarcrust]

@23:34

freudian slip

:p