Big Bang 3- Cosmology

        Got my new iPod hooked up and loaded with an astronomy lecture and went for my evening walk. The lecture was “black holes 3” and covered so much data that I’ll have to re-re-listen to it before I can write about it in any detail. It’s my second time listening to this lecture series from UC Berkeley. I only wished I had the talent and mental capacity to have gone there when I was younger! Anyways the lecture was about what happened ten to the minus forty-three seconds after the big bang, and we can only speculate what happened before that. Professor Joshua Bloom talked about Professor George Smoot of Berkeley who recently won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the beginnings of structure in the early universe that was the catalyst to forming galaxies. Very interesting! He also talked more on dark energy.