Description
Having completed our tour of the Solar System, we now turn to a
discussion of the requirements for life, and where those requirements
might be satisfied elsewhere in the Solar System. Some - energy,
complex chemistry, and liquid water - seem obvious, but they are not the
only possibilities or considerations. At the end, we will have a short
list of possible places to look, some expected, others surprising.
Recorded live on 2009 Oct 29 in Room 1005 Smith Laboratory on the
Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.
Course finale and summary. We look back over where we've been the last
eleven weeks, and bring together all of the main themes of this course
on Life in the Universe. Recorded live on 2009 Dec 4 in Room 1005 Smith
Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.
Published 12/04/09
How will life, the Universe, and everything end? This lecture looks at
the evolution of our expanding Universe to project the prospects for
life into the distant cosmological future. Recent observations show
that we live in an infinite, accelerating universe. I will trace the
evolution of the...
Published 12/03/09