Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
The First Stars
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The Sun is a second generation star, Professor Silk discusses what we can learn from its ancestors: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-first-stars
Eddington once famously said that a physicist on a cloud-bound planet could predict that there are stars. The first series of lectures will be devoted to fundamental questions that have simple answers. What is a star? What is a galaxy? All devolves around knowing their masses. Why should a star like the sun weigh in at two billion trillion trillion tonnes? No more, no less. And all other stars, countless in number, are between a tenth of a hundred times the mass of the sun.
This leads us into a description of the first stars in the universe.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-first-stars
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,800 lectures free to access or download from the website.
Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege
Eddington once famously said that a physicist on a cloud-bound planet could predict that there are stars. The first series of lectures will be devoted to fundamental questions that have simple answers. What is a star? What is a galaxy? All devolves around knowing their masses. Why should a star like the sun weigh in at two billion trillion trillion tonnes? No more, no less. And all other stars, countless in number, are between a tenth of a hundred times the mass of the sun.
This leads us into a description of the first stars in the universe.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-first-stars
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,800 lectures free to access or download from the website.
Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege