Meeting Details: May 18, 2007

DVD Presentation “The View From the Center of the Universe.”

This is a recording of a talk given by Joel R. Primack (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Nancy Ellen Abrams (also from the University of California, Santa Cruz).

Primack and Abrams have written a book (also entitled “The View From the Center of the Universe”), the book covers similar ground as the talk (but goes into more detail). [The book]

Primack, one of the world’s leading cosmologists, and Abrams, a philosopher and writer, use recent advances in astronomy, physics, and cosmology to frame a compelling new theory for understanding the universe and our role in it.

For a decade, Primack and Abrams have been co-teaching a course at UC Santa Cruz called “Cosmology and Culture,” from which the book and the talk were developed. They are married and have a daughter. For more information, see their website.

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