The Edge of Forever

Lunch Matters

Wednesday March 17, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00

Dr. Sagan leads us on some awesome trips - to a time when galaxies were beginning to form, to India to explore the infinite cycles of Hindu cosmology, and to show how humans of this century discovered the expanding universe and its origin in the big bang.

He disappears down a black hole and reappears in New Mexico to show us an array of 17 telescopes probing the farthest reaches of space.

With Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University

Caleb Scharf received a PhD in astronomy from the University of Cambridge and has held research positions at NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is currently the director of Columbia University's multidisciplinary Astrobiology Center. He has worked in the fields of observational cosmology, X-ray astronomy, and more recently exoplanetary science. He is also the author of the undergraduate textbook "Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology" (University Science Books).

$10 / Free for members