Space and Time. Stories from the Neuchâtel Observatory
HKB MA Design Entrepreneurship – Exhibition Project
Proactively addressing inequalities and exclusion becomes essential for museums when fulfilling their mission to serving society.
This becomes even more important in a context of increasing movements of populations, polarisation and divisive public discourses. Museums deal with these issues by working on diverse themes such as participation, accessibility, well-being, gender, marginalization and inclusion/exclusion through a variety of activities.
In the early days of 2013, “CQFD” takes the time, turns it back, stops it and measures it.
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In 2011, we – a team of Dutch innovators – joined forces with a Swiss investor with the aim of connecting cities, museums and their stories with travellers who wanted to explore the world in a brand new, innovative way: via a global, open and free platform. A bit like Facebook or Wikipedia. Although this idea wasn’t anything new, no-one had yet done it on such a large and ambitious scale.
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Musée international d’horlogerie (MIH) – La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
“Time Stories – On the nature of time and its measurement” Yann Mambrini.
Ellipses, 2019.
Space-time is indeed churned by massive rotating bodies, as scientists had thought
Article on Space.com
The way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a new study finds.
That prediction is a phenomenon known as frame dragging, or the Lense-Thirring effect. It states that space-time will churn around a massive, rotating body. For example, imagine Earth were submerged in honey. As the planet rotated, the honey around it would swirl — and the same holds true with space-time.
Satellite experiments have detected frame dragging in the gravitational field of rotating Earth, but the effect is extraordinarily small and, therefore, has been challenging to measure. Objects with greater masses and more powerful gravitational fields, such as white dwarfs and neutron stars, offer better chances to see this phenomenon. ….
Jean-Philippe Uzan, a cosmologist at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, is taking part in the Nuit des idées 2020, of which Sciences et Avenir is a partner. He offers us his point of view as a physicist on the theme of the festival: “Being alive”.
The apocalypse clock advanced 20 seconds closer to midnight than ever before.
Imagined in 1947 to symbolize the imminence of a planetary cataclysm, the apocalyptic clock was brought forward to midnight minus 100 seconds
Doomsday Clock website | Article in Sciences et Avenir
Rehabilitate the backlog to regain time to live with the current injunctions on performance and profitability. Hélène L’Heuillet, psychoanalyst and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, talks about it in her “Eloge du retard” (Albin Michel, January 2020).
