“Everything that makes up what we’re familiar with and everything we’ve ever seen is like an ashy residue left over from the Big Bang – we’re just this residual dust.”
Astrophysicist Janna Levin contemplates the mystery of dark matter in a poetic animation. Also see Levin on the transcendence of science and how the mathematician Kurt Gödel shaped the modern mind.
Dark matter may be responsible for the death of the dinosaurs.
So much love and respect poured into this remembrance of trailblazing astrophysicist Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter and paved the way for modern women in science.
Original art by Debbie Millman available as a print, with all proceeds benefiting the Association for Women in Science.
Read the remembrance here.
Pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter, on women in science and our never-ending quest to know the universe.
“Science consists of continually making better and better what has been usable in the past.”
Pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter, on women in science, the importance of role models in expanding children’s scope of possibility, and our never-ending quest to know the universe.