STOQ LECTURE 2010:

JOHN DAVID BARROW, Cambridge University

«THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE: WHAT MODERN COSMOLOGY TELLS US ABOUT OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE»

Friday, 10 December 2010 – 06.00 p.m.

Presided by Card. Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture

Response: José G. Funes S.J., Vatican Observatory

Moderator: Piero Benvenuti Italian Space Agency – ASI

Abstract and further info: below

Żródło: Project Science, Theology and Ontological Quest

Abstract: We will look at the idea of the expanding universe and its consequences for the development of life. We will introduce the inflationary universe theory and the evidence for it, and see why it has forced us to think in new ways about our place in a 'Multiverse’ of universes and to rethink what we mean by the origin of the Universe and whether we should expect our universe to have had a beginning in time.

Congress Venue: San Pio X Hall

Via della Conciliazione 5 (entrance: via dell’Ospedale)

00193 Roma

Simultaneous translation from English to Italian

A reception will follow the event

Further Information:

Pontifical Council for Culture

STOQ Project

Tel.: [+39] 06 69893811 – Fax:  [+39] 06 69897368

email: [email protected] – website: www.stoqproject.it