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In this final episode of From the Quantum to the Cosmos, Geraint talks about facing cosmic mysteries: what don’t we understand? Well basically a lot – like 70% of the stuff of our universe: dark matter and dark energy, for a start! Once some great scientist discovers the Theory of Everything, that chasm between quantum […]
Anna Groden from ANG Art and I made our annual pilgrimage to the Archibald finalists at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and recorded our impressions in this conversation. As always, I tend to be the cynic while Anna brings the measured approach, tempered as always, with her great knowledge. Were we blown away? […]
When Dr Ruth Wilson turned 70, she kept dreaming that she had lost her voice. In a determined effort to find it – and indeed herself – she left her Sydney life for a cottage in the Southern Highlands. To heal her ailing soul, she decided to reread the 6 novels of Jane Austen Her […]
In this episode, Geraint reiterates the chasm between quantum mechanics and traditional astrophysics in explaining our universe. Both sides know we need to mesh the 2 theories if we are to understand our universe. Both sides have wonderful mathematical support for their theories, but they are talking different mathematical languages. How are scientists going about […]
Chris Bonnor is co-author of Waiting for Gonski. Ten years on since then Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, commissioned David Gonski to review Commonwealth funding of schools. Her concern was that demography should not denote destiny. Needs based funding was needed and ten years on, we are still waiting. […]
In this episode, Professor Geraint Lewis projects forward trillions of years to predict what happens when the stars all run out of fuel. […]
Read More… from From the Quantum to the Cosmos Part 4: The Quantum of Cosmos Future
In this episode, Geraint takes us from the birth of the stars along their journey to a projected end. Our own star, the sun, remains stable and this is a condition of life for us. But what happens or could happen to stars which use up their fuel supply? […]
Bill Lucas is not a household name in architecture circles and certainly not in comparison to the luminaries who were his contemporaries. However, perhaps he should be. Commencing practice in the 1950s, he was committed to sustainability before anyone else had even heard of the word! In an attempt to resurrect his reputation, architect, Peter […]
Read More… from Bill Lucas with Peter Lonergan and Ed Lippmann
In this episode, Professor Geraint Lewis looks at the theories of how our cosmos began, starting with Einstein and moving on to other theories by Russian Alexander Friedman and the Belgian cleric, Lemaitre. […]
Read More… from From the Quantum to the Cosmos Part 2:The Quantum of the Cosmos Past
Geraint Lewis, Professor of Astrophysics, returns to talk about his new book Where Did the Universe Come From? His co author is A/Professor Chris Ferrie, Quantum physicist from UTS. In this first episode, Geraint starts with the startling proposition that physics is broken! […]
Read More… from The Quantum and the Cosmos Part 1 with Professor Geraint Lewis
Dr Carolyn Hogg from Sydney University has devoted her academic life to endangered species. In this conversation, we talk about koalas and the threats they face. These are the same as other threatened or endangered species: habitat loss, urbanisation and disease. But what are we doing about it? […]
Read More… from Mapping the Koala Genome with Dr Carolyn Hogg
We started the year on Arts Wednesday talking about New Year’s resolutions and top of the list for Australians is losing weight. The problem is, we don’t do very well at keeping our resolution. Why do so many of us want to lose weight and why do we all want the silver bullet? Fad diets […]