In 1783 an English clergyman showed that Newton's theory of gravitation implied that a massive star would be invisible as light could not escape its gravity. In 1916 a German soldier wrote that Einstein's theory of gravitation implied that a massive star would collapse into an infinitely small volume. By the 1960s we could observe the visible spectrum, radio, ultraviolet, and X-ray. We found the universe to be very violent. We understood the behavior of matter at the smallest scale and how stars burn. In 1968 a Princeton professor named the collapsed star, that the German predicted, a black hole. We now know that black holes exist, that there is one at the center of most galaxies, that they formed early in the universe's history, that they influence the evolution of galaxies, and that we need a theory of quantum gravity to explain them. In these talks we will learn about the physics of black holes and why a new theory is important. Little math is required, but we will also touch on many new ideas in contemporary physics.

COURESE LEADER
Bernard Abramson is a retired corporate chief information officer with international management and consulting experience. He was adjunct professor in the master of technology management program at Polytechnic University. Educated in the United Kingdom, he has degrees in mathematics and astrophysics.

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