Lecture
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 04. Lecture #3 (double). The Universe, Its Time, and Our Place in Them
We exist in space and time. The nearby world can be described with classical Newtonian concepts, but describing the Universe requires much more complex models.
During upload to YouTube, the video lost four fragments. The first is just a joke (from the animated film “Ku! Kin-dza-dza”). The other three are important for understanding the lecture and are taken from Mark Radice’s BBC film “The Mysteries of Dark Energy”: Einstein’s concept of gravity as curvature of space, Vera Rubin’s discovery of dark matter, and Saul Perlmutter’s discovery of dark energy. To understand the lecture, please watch the last two fragments.