So, here I am on the second day of the opening ceremony in the auditorium waiting for the next session after lunch to begin. I’ve just realised that the camera on my camera phone is a bit pant’s really so it means I might be running a marathon up and down the stairs to take photographs from right at the front of the stage, just to get the focus right. While writing this I’ve decided to move next to the cameras so I now on the fourth row in the auditorium. Perhaps my camera will work better from here! The phrase for the past couple of days seems to be from the speakers “next slide please”, I wonder if someone will move my slides for me at my talk on Monday for the IAU 260 symposium? Perhaps I can hire the guy who’s the slide mover for 4.30pm next week!!!
Reinhard Genzel has just finished taking the participants on a journey to the centre of the galaxy through the study of black holes, and we are now listening to Jonathan Gardner presenting the latest discovereies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and what we might be able to discover with the James Webb Space Telescope.
Apparently studies show that the Universe is flat, I beg to disagree, its fractal.
Einstein simplified, I love this cartoon!