Quantum to Cosmos
Journey through the universe from the subatomic scale to the farthest reaches of the cosmos – all without leaving the comfort of your home or classroom! Perimeter’s new interactive scale zooms from the Planck scale to the cosmos, exploring everything between and revealing images, facts, and interactions along the way.
A Special Public Lecture Live Stream
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
University of Oxford
Thursday, Oct. 25 @ 7:00 pm
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, winner of the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, is an accomplished scientist and champion for women in physics. As a graduate student in 1967, she co-discovered pulsars, a breakthrough widely considered one of the most important scientific advances of the 20th century. When the discovery of pulsars was recognized with the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, the award went to her graduate advisor. Undaunted, she persevered and became one of the most prominent researchers in her field and an advocate for women and other under-represented groups in physics.
She plans to use the $3 million Breakthrough Prize to fund women and other under-represented groups pursuing physics to bring greater diversity to the field.
In a special Perimeter public lecture, Dame Bell Burnell will take the audience on a journey into the realm of pulsars, and share stories from her personal journey of scientific discovery. Find out more about the upcoming lecture live stream.
Slice of PI
Things in this universe can be mind-bogglingly large, like galactic clusters, or unimaginably small, like quarks.
We inhabit a peculiar place in this grand scale of sizes: smack-dab in the middle! The fundamental unit of life, the living cell, sits at the geometric mean between the biggest things in the universe and the teensiest.
From this privileged position in the middle, how well do you know all things great and small?
Take a journey from quantum to cosmos and test your knowledge of all things great and small with our Quantum to Cosmos quiz.
The questions and answers in the quiz are taken from our new "Quantum to Cosmos" interactive scale of the universe as described earlier in this email. Click and explore!
