[Chaos-l] Fwd: Oct. 17 at GTCC

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

This looks interesting, and i couldn't tell if it were sent to the  
list.  Apologies if it's a duplicate.

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> From: <dennishands at triad.rr.com>
> Date: October 5, 2008 10:30:16 AM EDT
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Subject: Oct. 17 at GTCC
>
> Black Holes: From Einstein to Gamma Ray Bursts
> Dr. Neil Gehrels
> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
>
> Friday, 17 October, 7:30 p.m.,
> Koury Auditorium, GTCC, Jamestown, NC
>
> With amazing intuition, Einstein developed his theory of general  
> relativity and published it in 1916. His equations predicted that  
> space-time is warped by mass in the universe. They had an  
> unexpected solution with a gravitational singularity from which  
> even light could not escape - later named a "black hole" by John  
> Wheeler. Others predicted that massive stars could, in principle,  
> collapse to such a state. With the space age, X-ray telescopes  
> found strong evidence that black holes really exist and are  
> important components of the cosmos. Their birth is observed as  
> fiery gamma-ray bursts. Still unproven are some of the more exotic  
> predictions such as worm holes connecting distant parts of the  
> universe and the evaporation of primordial black holes proposed by  
> Stephen Hawking. This lecture will discuss all of the real and  
> speculative aspects of black holes and return to the still-open  
> question of "what is a black hole".
>
> About the Speaker:  Dr. Neil Gehrels is head of the Astroparticle  
> Physics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is  
> Principal Investigator of NASA's SWIFT Observatory which was  
> launched in November 2004. His research involves building space  
> flight instruments to observe astronomical objects. The emphasis of  
> his research is on explosive events in the cosmos such as gamma-ray  
> bursts and supernovae. He received his Ph.D. in physics at Caltech  
> in 1981 and has been an astrophysicist at Goddard since that time.  
> He was Project Scientist for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory  
> during its operations from 1991 to 2000 and is a Deputy Project  
> Scientist for the recently-launched large GLAST gamma-ray  
> observatory.
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