2009: Our Complex Cosmos (Rees)

Our Universe started off in a hot, dense and almost uniform state. As it expanded and cooled, the first atoms formed.
Structures then emerged, leading to the formation of galaxies, stars and planets. Thanks to the use of ever more powerful telescopes on the ground and in space (allied to more powerful computers) astronomers are starting to understand the properties of the complex cosmos in which we live.

Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the
University of Cambridge, Astronomer Royal, and President of
the Royal Society.

This video presentation, part of the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 held in UNESCO, Paris is featured on the IAF channel courtesy of the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO. The event was co-ordinated by the Observatoire de Paris.

Video production by University of Strasbourg/Canalc2 (www.canalc2.tv)

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[Darwin315]

I was there and actually shook his hand after his speech:)

[PolarisCZ]

Lucky you, I would love to meet him.

[jqs1943]

The X-gravity field factor of a gravitational force field impedes the crashing of planets with each other by means of repulsion and maintain the neighboring planets restricted to their particular orbital corridors. The overall weight pressure power represented by the X-gravity field factor of all of the planets that make up a galaxy is so grand that galaxies cannot crash with each other as they repel one another in the same fashion that planets do.

[voicubogdan84]

beautiful speech :)

[HenryDavidT]

(1) I giggled like mad when the big man sir-lord Martin, using middle finger & thumb, flicked at the "Creationists," who are, in his mind, not big/important enough for the fist or an open hand! Out of total left field! (2) No matter how advanced aliens are --- assuming they exist, like we do --- they WILL still have a clear, direct understanding of their own humble past & some "Darwinian-like" evolutionary processes. They won't be surprised at homo sapiens "extreme" rise (and/or demise).

[ticklemelia]

Martin Rees is one of my greatest heroes. He's awesome.

[electrocomm]

RESPECT

[astrofireball]

I was on his right taking some photographs :D