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© 2006 The Science Network Closing speech of American astrophysicist Neil degrasse Tyson, on the final day of the 2006 Beyond Belief Symposium, organized and hosted by The Science Network. Tyson reflects on our kinship with the cosmos, the excitement of being at the frontier of scientific discovery, and how exploring and learning about the cosmos through the tools and methods of science can offer a sense of spiritual fulfillment more enriching, and vastly more majestic, than what is provided by religion.
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Check out my blog for more videos atheistplanet.blogspot.com TIME Magazine interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson “Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and host of NOVA scienceNOW. Here he answers reader questions and talks about the universe and how he’d save the world. “
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PART 2: FAR OUT, MEASURING THE UNIVERSE & YONDER TO INFINITY, END OF THE UNIVERSE (from the acclaimed Space Files series from York Films of London). How far is a star or a galaxy? Distances are so vast they are described in light years; nearby stars are measured by trigonometry the technique of parallax. Farther out, astronomers use so-called standard candles, the Type Ia supernovae is the standard candle basis. Beyond that the electromagnetic redshift of galaxies reveals their distances …
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How far is a star or a galaxy? Distances are so vast they are described in light years; nearby stars are measured by trigonometry the technique of parallax. Farther out, astronomers use so-called standard candles, the Type Ia supernovae is the standard candle basis. Beyond that the electromagnetic redshift of galaxies reveals their distances. The second part of this program discusses the concept of the expanding Universe. Calculations by astrophysicists show that the cosmos seems to be …
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