Science Circle . Panel Discussion 2019

What are the most significant Unanswered Question in your field right now?

Monthly panel discussion With this week as subject "What is the biggest/most significant unanswered question in your field right now?" 

Panel participants:

Alex Hastings, Palaeontology Mike Shaw, Chemistry Stephen Gasior, Biology

Host scientific debates: Matthew Burr.

Video Recorded

SciFi con 2019.2

SciFi con 2019

  Scifi Con Dates May 17-26, 2019

  SURL --->Venue

Sim Color: Pink
Sim Name: SFC Pandora
Sim Description: A lush world of alien landscapes and giant trees.

Sim Color: Blue
Sim Name: SciFi Stories
Sim Description: We are all writing our stories on our various planets – come and share yours!

Sim Color: White
Sim Name: Atlantis
Sim Description: A watery world with wide blue skies and colossal futuristic architecture.

Sim Color: Green
Sim Name: Utopia Planitia
Sim Description: Dusty red martian landscape, home to the Starfleet shipyards.

Sim Color: Orange
Sim Name: The Grid
Sim Description: Neon-highlighted Tron-style event venues and tributes.

Sim Color: Yellow
Sim Name: The Rock
Sim Description: Far from paradise, far from home, far out in space, lies… “The Rock”. Tumbling space mountains all gravitationally bound and orbiting each other.

Presentation in the Science Circle May 18,2019. First Image of a supermassive Black Hole

First Image of a supermassive Black Hole
 From abstract in website

“Staring into the abyss: the first image of a supermassive black hole”
On April 10 of this year, the Event Horizon Telescope team released a radio image of the black hole at the core of the galaxy M87. The image is a ring of light, brighter on one side. What does it mean? What does it tell us about the black hole? Why are people so excited about it?
In this talk, I’ll discuss what black holes we know are out there, including supermassive black holes like this one. I’ll talk what it really means to take a picture of something that no light escapes from, and I’ll talk about how the image we see is just as much affected by the gravity of the black hole as it is by the plasma that actually emitted the light we’re looking at.

 By Rob Knop

Here is the link to his voice.

 Rob Knop : Physics & Astronomy(website)

  In talking about resolution, Rob is setting us up for how the Event Horizon Telescope, with its eight telescopes synchronized across five continents, effectively creates an aperture the size of the whole Earth! So it has a resolution high enough to see details around a supermassive black hole in M87!

Related links (Japanese)

 https://bit.ly/2JO16gL

https://bit.ly/2VNir0E

https://www.nao.ac.jp/news/science/2019/20190410-eht.html

Related links (English)

https://bit.ly/2Ks6Oa7

https://bit.ly/2UHZwTN

https://bit.ly/2uZE4Lo