Viewing the Universe by Carolin Crawford

Astronomers depend on light for their understanding of the cosmos beyond the confines of the Solar System. Many of the most exciting discoveries over the last couple of decades were made possible by new generations of cameras and telescopes, both on the ground and in space. The resulting observations captured the imagination not just of the scientists but also of the general public. Dr Crawford will discuss the new facilities anticipated coming online over the next ten years or so - how they’ll not only change our view of the Universe, but also alter the way we do Astronomy.
Carolin Crawford is the Public Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. She received her PhD from Cambridge University, and for many years she used X-ray, optical, and near-infrared observations to investigate both the environments of some of the largest galaxies in the Universe. Her research was carried out alongside - and later eclipsed by - a growing role in the public communication of science. Carolin now gives many talks every year communicating the excitement of astronomy to as wide an audience as possible; she also makes regular appearances on local and national radio. Her efforts were recognized by a Woman of Outstanding Achievement award from the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology for “communication of SET with a contribution to society” in 2009, and her appointment as the Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College 2011- 2015. Carolin is also a College Lecturer, Fellow, and Admissions Tutor at Emmanuel College where she teaches mathematics.

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

🎯My favorite lecturers ! Carolin's got The Best Lecture series on KZbin..🛰 Easy to find on the Gresham College YTChannel. She is The Best 😎👍

[@tnekkc]

Her content is great, but the audio of some of the Gresham recordings is not good.

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

@@tnekkc🎯 I agree but, just for fun.. did you ever try to listen an "Hubble's Lecture" from California USA ? Some Presentation are terrible.. very terrible.. more than that, Impossible to understand ! Because I'm still learning English, it's very difficult for me when the audio is worst than Terrible ! Have a good day 📝😎🍻

[@munihousen123]

Agreed. Shes as lively on stage as she was @ Gresham.

[@JMDinOKC]

I don't know why, but every time I watch a video by Professor Crawford, Sunday brunch in Notting Hill, cycling tours of Scotland, and drinking Merlot tend to spring to mind.

[@cricketjam]

I watched this 5 times so far, with some light piano music, and a fireplace video going on the other screen. It's a nice time.

[@whirledpeas3477]

That's awesome, I have a cat.

[@cricketjam]

@@whirledpeas3477 Cool man, I was making a very relevant comment on a good way to enjoy this video. But I guess you just need a friend to talk to?

[@old_45]

Extraordinarily clear and lively! Contagious enthusiasm!

[@gabrieldunn7384]

I could listen to her all day.

[@ariessweety8883]

Love Carolin Crawford's lectures.

[@cuscof2]

In her Saturn lecture one of the questions at the end was a guy who asked, "But what is it good for?" She looked pained, paused for a moment, and said, "Sir, have you no soul?"

[@pmboston]

The time lapse camera scope blows me away. What a great conception. So many uses and such clever monkeys we are.😎

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

🎯😂 I agree on that.. fortunately

[@Bane_Diesel]

Do you have a timestamp?

[@unarammer2003]

I'm so glad I'm not a monkey...I am a child of God that has a brain and can use discernment.. you Godless heathens ,n your sun worshipping cult,are a plague to humanity..

[@pmboston]

@@unarammer2003 Don’t ‘worship’ anything. I see that like most ‘holy’ people you immediately begin freaking out when what a fool you are is pointed out. What next, I’m going to some horrible punishment when I die? And if you aren’t an animal then you’re a plant, and you are, in fact, a species of ape. An invasive species by most definitions. Heathens, like pagans, are just country folk, and they usually have plenty of gods and spirits to deal with. And really, ‘sun worshipping’ ? And as for your discerning brain…

[@unarammer2003]

@@pmboston the antikytheria mechanism makes a mockery of this professor and every lying word outta her lie hole...

[@davidwilkie9551]

Why the big bang idea is the superficial interpretation of Logarithmic Time Singularity Conception-Condensation modulation cause-effect and will be elaborated by the extension of Advanced Quarternions in terms of AM-FM Communication Holographic Principle.., Conjecture.

[@gabrieldunn7384]

Is she making new videos ?

[@diegocolomes]

Lots of telescopes here in Chile👌

[@mostlynew]

6:25 The Antikythera mechanism discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck proves the ancients had scientific knowledge of the solar centric planetary system two millennia before Copernicus and Galileo.

[@PhilthCollinz]

Its absolutely criminal how much that specific evidence of ancient advanced culture is downplayed.

[@pmboston]

Actually the regularity of observed planetary motions was written in to the gearing but even so the underlying cause was not obvious then (or now) and people were calculating and predicting such things for thousands of years without a sol centered system in mind. It took advances in mathematics and technology that made Kepler and Galileo possible. The persistent desire to see advanced ancient cultures that vanished mysteriously without a trace is just romanticism which for me, compared to the study of prehistory, is not one bit as interesting as scientific archaeology.

[@PhilthCollinz]

@@pmboston Yeah but modern man couldn't figure out antikythera mechanism at first and supposedly hadn't seen ANYTHING like it when they discovered it, those two things alone qualify as advanced.

[@pmboston]

@@PhilthCollinz you know, human intelligence didn’t show up yesterday, but the fund of human knowledge more or less did. In the sense that all increases in knowledge rely on extending our human senses through technology and engineering. Had there been a former society like ours of human beings there would be unmistakeable evidence in the geological record, or if more recent than the geological past we would find archaeological evidence of that. Neither is found. Evidence that our ancestors were individually as smart as we are today is just surprising because of our misunderstanding of people who lived in a different world of possibilities. The antikythera mechanism was as much a work of art as a scientific instrument. I’ve been following our efforts to understand it for many years. It is fascinating.

[@PhilthCollinz]

@@pmboston The fund of human knowledge showed up yesterday??? 🤣🤣🤣 If there had been a society like "ours" it would be in the archeological record?? 🤣🤣🤣 Whyte ppl LOVE to say and believe that the fund of knowledge showed up recently because that means you get dismiss the African influence that came before. The first college in the WORLD was in Africa, timbuktu, where ALL of your whyte European scholars were educated from directly or indirectly, Plato, Socrates ALL of em. The whole gotdam renaissance which is responsible for european thought and philosophy was educated by the scholars that came outta that college. Electricity was used in Africa EONS before whyte ppl came to study at the university of timbuktu but YOUR people the same ppl who write the so called archaeological records you speak of call it the BAGHDAD battery, COMPLETELY dismissing the fact that baghdad and all the immediate sorrounding area was conquered and controlled by an African empire when the so called baghdad battery was made and ALSO COMPLETELY dismissing the fact the the so called battery was also found in Africa, the symbol and mathematics for Pi which is a lynchpin of mathematics today was found on the walls at the pyramid of Giza. These pyramids which whyte ppl STILL cannot reciprocate to this day is dismissed or attributed to aliens because whyte ppl dont want to believe they were built by the black hands. Whyte ppl whitewash history and records to their benefit. So no i dont agree with those thoughts.

[@remali26]

Why all galaxies are flat and not spherical?

[@unclecrusty5476]

while none are spherical plenty are Ellipical in nature which puts them in the shame of an ellisepoid.

[@MOS6582]

Gravity pulls everything into equilibrium which for galaxies is a flat plane with one axis of rotation around the central mass. Over time most of the stars in the galaxy will be pulled into this arrangement.

[@unarammer2003]

twinkle twinkle sun worshippers...this is a satanic religion from the kabbalahistic rabbis...not one word of this fantasy theory tale can be proven...the views of the cosmos through the eyes of the devil....GEOCENTRIC you baal believers...the antikytheria mechanism makes mockery of all this nonsence... Jesus Christ is the living God,for the living...the way,the truth and the life!!! all glory to my father in heaven Yahway the creator of the firmament and everything in it... repent sun worshipper and turn back to your creator

[@gabrieldunn7384]

She explained that in another video.

[@allen2879]

Wow she aged fast lol 5 years and she looks 20 years older wth

[@whirledpeas3477]

Time dilation? 🤔

[@jimhendrickson3064]

Che

[@c.p.8062]

So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. - (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God. - And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart. - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him]. - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed. - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. - But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. - Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: - But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

[@martinzitter4551]

She conspicuously makes no acknowledgement of gravitational wave astronomy which relies in no way on photons.

[@gw5751]

yes she does! - from 48.20 mins onward

[@old_45]

Mr. Zitter, did you watch the video?