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Time is directly elementary and mysterious. From the 2000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism to fashionable cesium-fountain clocks, people have lengthy sought to grasp temporal patterns in nature, and construct mechanisms to measure, replicate and predict these patterns. We’re at a novel second, one by which we have developed the flexibility to understand relativistic results on time on the smallest scales, whereas struggling to assume and plan throughout generations.
On this dialogue course, college students will replicate on the deep mysteries of time. How can we find our place within the huge historical past and expanse of the Universe? Why do the planets, moon, and stars transfer the way in which they do? What does the longer term maintain? Does time even exist? The course will draw from the wealthy supplies obtainable on the HSNY’s Jost Bürgi Analysis Library, and from the trainer’s graduate course at NYU, “Time”.
Taught by Jeffrey Feddersen
Time: 6:00PM — 7:30PM
Price: $150, Capability: 11
Jeffrey Feddersen has collaborated for over 20 years with artists, musicians, designers, and engineers to make wonderful issues. Educated in laptop science and music, his code and creativity might be present in tasks for teams starting from the Hayden Planetarium to HBO. He’s a devoted trainer and has held analysis and fellowship positions at NYU’s digital arts graduate program, ITP, the place he’s presently a Manufacturing Mentor. At ITP he developed the video curriculum supporting artistic electronics, and based the programs “Vitality” and “Time”. The Time course combines physics and philosophy to hint the connections between time-keeping, computation, and human makes an attempt to grasp the universe.
