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  1. Starter http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/bb_popup_historyMovie.htm What do you think that was about? What was the noise at the start?

  2. the big bang

  3. Starter http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/bb_popup_historyMovie.htm The frames are as follows: • Just before the Big Bang • Instant of the Big Bang • First 3 minutes • 300 thousand years • 100 million years • A billion years • 14 billion years

  4. Main Task What actually happened?

  5. Main Task How do we know when something happens?

  6. Main Task Show me the evidence!

  7. Main Task “from speculation to precision science” Full sky picture of cosmic microwave radiation taken by WMAP 2003

  8. Main Task cosmic microwave background radiation

  9. Main Task Timeline of the Universe

  10. Main Task Evolution of Universe: a scientific model

  11. Main Task Inside the Large Hadron Collider

  12. Activity 1 The who did what?Soup Georges LemaîtreEdwin HubbleAlan Guth and Andrei LindeFred HoyleArnoPenzias & Robert WilsonDave WilkinsonGeorge GamowRobert Dicke & PJE Pebbles

  13. Activity 2 The Origins of the Universe: a chronology of ideas The Kung Bushmen of the KalahariThe Bakhtiari (Persia)The LappsAncient Chinese culturesAncient HebrewsAncient Greeks – e.g. the PythagoreansPtolemaic theoriesAlchemical theories of man and natureThe Renaissance scientists – e.g. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, NewtonNew age theories – from Einstein to today

  14. Activity 3 A Conference: finding out about The Large Hadron Collider • What is the standard model of particle physics? (include some historical background) • Why was the LHC constructed (for what purpose)? What risks does it pose? How do you think decisions were made to go ahead with its construction? • How do you think the LHC will change the study of physics in the future? (offer a comparative account of knowledge about particle physics from its inception to today . . . and into the future)

  15. Plenary

  16. Plenary People often ask questions like . . . • If there was a Big Bang, then what was there before the Big Bang? • If time began at the Big Bang, was there no time before that and . . . what does that mean? • Is the Big Bang an irrefutable fact? • If the Big Bang really happened, what made it happen? • Can events like the Big Bang just spontaneously happen? • and . . . Why on earth am I here?

  17. From a theoretical physicist . . . “I wish science could easily provide an answer to these questions, but in my view, it cannot. But that doesn’t mean it is impossible to arrive at a well thought out worldview . . . go back and study some more and make up your own mind!”Ard Louis, theoretical physicist (2005)

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