My science pictures
Science Museum and Natural History Museum
Sylvia Ekström, Astrophysician
Christoph Renner, Physician
Marc Ratcliff, Science historian
Speed of light
Speed of light around Earth, 7.5 laps per second
Solar system distances to scale with real-time speed of light!
Scientific museology, a whole history!
Colloquium 2016, Palais de la Découverte, Paris
On May 24, 1937, as part of the Paris International Exhibition, the Palais de la découverte opened its doors to a curious public, many of whom came to marvel at science. On March 13, 1986, on the occasion of the meeting between the Giotto probe and Halley’s comet, the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie was inaugurated in the Parc de la Villette.
In 2009, the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie and the Palais de la découverte were brought together in a common establishment, Universcience. The double anniversary of the 30th and 80th anniversaries gives the latter the opportunity to retrace the path taken by each of the two sites in the service of the dissemination of scientific, technical and industrial culture, and to highlight its living and inventive museology, its expertise in human mediation and its high level cultural engineering.
This celebration opens up the possibility, at the same time, of creating a new dynamic for the decades to come.
TimeWorld 2019
TimeWorld values connected intelligence
International Congress on Time in Paris (21, 22, 23 November 2019)
Can we live without a calendar? Does DNA record the passage of time? Do atoms take their time? Biological immortality: fiction or reality? Are musicians time makers? If you have these and many other questions about the weather, TimeWorld is for you.
Through conferences, round tables, shows, workshops, all participants contribute to the current reflection on time.
Can we measure the Time?
Is the time of the gnomons back?
Time is finally a construction
Can we really travel to the future?
Can we say that the Universe has 13.8 bilion years?
Time perception: after one year of isolation
A single time for all, or each one his own?
Can we take over the time?
Chronobiology
What do you think time is?
Time of brands
Time according to Laurent Lafforgue
Time in the cinema
Perception of time in Japan
Human Clock
By Bruce Nauman, american artist
Einstein on the Beach
Grand Théâtre Genève
Direction: Daniele Finzi Pasca – Composer: Philip Glass
Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts (framed and connected by five “knee plays” or intermezzos), composed by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson who also collaborated with Glass on the work’s libretto.[1][2] The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards. The music was written “in the spring, summer and fall of 1975”.
Overall, the music assigned to Einstein demonstrates a circular process, a repeating cycle that constantly delays resolution. This process uses both additive and subtractive formulas. The three main scenes within the opera—”Train”, “Trial”, and “Field/Spaceship”—allude to Einstein’s hypotheses about his theory of relativity and his unified field theory. Specifically, themes within the opera allude to nuclear weapons, science, and AM radio.
References: wikipedia
