Society monthly meeting recorded on 20220615 at The Briars Mount Martha Observatory.
Meeting introduction and rundown of past month and upcoming events was given by the President, Dr. Peter Skilton.
The main talk was a public lecture hosted by the Royal Institution (London), by Prof. Carlo Rovelli, Theoretical Physicist at Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy of Aix-Marseille University, France, on the topic of “Physics and Philosophy of Time”.
Vice President, Mark Stephens, then presented “Sky for the Month”.
Other educational videos were shown by Peter Skilton as follows:
“If the Universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?”, presented by Dr. Don Lincoln, Particle Physicist, Fermilab, Illinois.
“Putting the Multiverse to the Test”, presented by Assistant Prof. Matthew Johnson, Physics & Astronomy, York University & hosted by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
“Glass Cracking at 10 Million Frames Per Second”, by Dr. James Orgill, Chemical Engineer, The Action Lab YouTube channel.
“Why the #$@&% Does Swearing Reduce Pain?” by Anand Jagatia (science broadcaster), courtesy of the Royal Institution, London.
A musical closure followed, showing a video of Timelapse Photosynthesis Seen from Space, courtesy of California Academy of Sciences. Audio is an unattributed instrumental accompanying the video.