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What We Can Learn from Gravity: Planet IX, Rippling Space-time, and the Accelerating Universe

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September 29, 2016
4:00PM - 6:30PM
1000 McPherson Lab

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-29 16:00:00 2016-09-29 18:30:00 What We Can Learn from Gravity: Planet IX, Rippling Space-time, and the Accelerating Universe Time: 8 p.m. Event Host: Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) Short Description: The universe is full of surprises. No one knows that better than David H. Weinberg, professor and chair of Ohio State’s Department of Astronomy. His lecture, What We Can Learn from Gravity: Planet IX, Rippling Space-time, and the Accelerating Universe, kicks off Ohio State’s First Astronomy & Astrophysics Public Lecture Series. The universe is full of surprises. No one knows that better than David H. Weinberg, professor and chair of Ohio State’s Department of Astronomy. His lecture, What We Can Learn from Gravity: Planet IX, Rippling Space-time, and the Accelerating Universe, kicks off Ohio State’s First Astronomy & Astrophysics Public Lecture Series. Weinberg dissects three of the most recent, startling discoveries: Unusual alignments; Ghostly ripples of space-time; and Mysterious "dark energy.”Free/Open to the public. More information. 1000 McPherson Lab College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: 8 p.m.
Event Host: Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP)
Short Description: The universe is full of surprises. No one knows that better than David H. Weinberg, professor and chair of Ohio State’s Department of Astronomy. His lecture, What We Can Learn from Gravity: Planet IX, Rippling Space-time, and the Accelerating Universe, kicks off Ohio State’s First Astronomy & Astrophysics Public Lecture Series.


The universe is full of surprises. No one knows that better than David H. Weinberg, professor and chair of Ohio State’s Department of Astronomy. His lecture, What We Can Learn from Gravity: Planet IX, Rippling Space-time, and the Accelerating Universe, kicks off Ohio State’s First Astronomy & Astrophysics Public Lecture Series. Weinberg dissects three of the most recent, startling discoveries: Unusual alignments; Ghostly ripples of space-time; and Mysterious "dark energy.”

Free/Open to the public. More information.

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