Wednesday, January 9 @ 8 pm:
Union Hall’s “Secret Science Club” presents: Space Is the Place

Astrophysicist David Spergel Lectures on the Latest News from the Cosmos

Strap on your rocket pack! The Secret Science Club is heading for the edge of time and space.

Observations of the “cosmic microwave background”—the heat created by the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago—have allowed astrophysicists like David Spergel to answer some of cosmology’s biggest questions: What is the size and shape of the universe? How much of the universe is made of ordinary matter—and how much is dark matter?

And these interstellar observations have posed a new set of questions as well, including: What is “dark energy”? And what exactly happened during the Big Bang?