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May Book Club - Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall

Event Details

Date/Time:
Mon, May 09, 2016
06:30PM - 08:30PM
Venue:
Ettore's European Bakery and Restaurant
Location:
2376 Fair Oaks Blvd., Sacramento CA 95825
Map address
Registration Period:
02/17/2016-05/09/2016
Price:
Pay for your own food and drinks.
Contact:
Barbara Lemus, '76
916-508-2048

the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth.  Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs. Working through the background and consequences of this proposal, Randall shares with us the latest findings—established and speculative—regarding the nature and role of dark matter and the origin of the Universe, our galaxy, our Solar System, and life, along with the process by which scientists explore new concepts. 

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