We are now using it to test our ideas about the origin of the Universe.
Its detailed measurements have given us a wealth of information such as the composition and history of the Universe. The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) gives a photographic image of the Universe when it was still an “infant”. Sir Roger and Eiichiro took us on a journey through space and time, looking forward to new insights from future experiments.Īfter the lectures a panel of young experts – postdoctoral fellows and PhD students – remained on the livestream to answer questions from members of the public. Professor Komatsu played a leading role in the NASA WMAP satellite project that mapped the whole cosmic microwave sky for the first time, revealing a blueprint of the primordial seeds that Stephen Hawking had helped predict. Sir Roger Penrose was one of Stephen Hawking’s earliest and most important collaborators, with whom he proved an all-encompassing theorem about how matter collapses to a singularity in both the Big Bang and Black Holes, that is, points in space where mass is seemingly compressed to infinite density and zero volume.
Two online public outreach lectures about the science of our Universe were delivered on Friday, 8th January 2021 by Professor Sir Roger Penrose, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Professor Eiichiro Komatsu, Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich.
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