SOLD OUT! A Responsibility to Awe: Dark Matter & Uncertainty

We breed enthusiasms, Honour our responsibility to awe

Rebecca Elson, We Astronomers from the collection, A Responsibility to Awe

The great galactic mystery of dark matter is the “invisible glue of the cosmos”. This, along with Dark Energy, which is expanding our universe, make up at least 95% of our universe, and yet we know very little about what they are. To explain the magnitude of what we don’t know, Frances Hellman, former professor of physics and Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UC Berkley, musician, artist and former Scientist-in-Residence at the SF Exploratorium will explain Dark Matter and Dark Energy to lay people.

Faced with the enormity of our ignorance, we can take comfort in the potentiality uncertainty with Jane Hirshfield. Jane is a practicing Zen Buddist, and world renown poet, essayist, translator and speaker known for working at the intersection of poetry and the sciences. In an…