Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

November 14, 2009

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Thank you for joining us for the first night of the 24th season of The Richmond Forum.

Anticipation has been high for this season as evidenced by the speed with which we sold out our season subscriptions, and by the number of phone calls that we continued to receive throughout this summer and fall in pursuit of tickets for individual programs. In this economic climate, we are truly grateful for your passionate support of The Richmond Forum. There are other great speakers series around the country, but none of them has the loyal support and following that we enjoy from our Richmond community, both its residents and our corporate citizens. Thank you.

Tonight we can expect to get the season started with a lively exploration of all things space. If you are familiar with Neil deGrasse Tyson, you already know that his personality is as large as his area of study. If you’re not familiar with him, then you’re in for a real treat.

This program comes right as the news has been filled with almost weekly headlines from space. There was the dud-for-spectators “attack” of the moon by NASA (hopefully the data will prove to be more exciting than the event), the discovery of a new “super-sized” ring around Saturn, and the discovery of a mysterious “ribbon” of hydrogen around our solar system that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like. To paraphrase one NASA official, the more we think we know, the more we find out what we didn’t know we didn’t know. Perhaps Dr. Tyson can leave us with a better understanding of what we do know tonight.

After our holiday break, we’ll be back here on January 9th for our program with Greg

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Dr. Neil deGrasse TysonAn Out of This World Evening

November 14, 2009

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Not every prominent astrophysicist has received “hate mail” from school children. Neil deGrasse Tyson has. It began a decade ago when Tyson—then and still the Frederick P. Rose director of New York’s famed Hayden Planetarium—be-came a vocal advocate for demoting Pluto from planetary status. The outrage generated by his position on the nature of Pluto is described in his 2009 book, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet. Despite his role in the demotion of Pluto, it is his role as the most visible and enthusiastic promoter of learning about the universe that has made him famous.

Tyson has been compared to the late Carl Sagan both for his ability to explain the cosmos to non-scientists and for his frequent presence on television and in print. Tyson is the on-camera host of the NOVA scienceNOW program on PBS. He has appeared multiple times on The Colbert Report, The Daily Show and BBC Horizon. In addition to The Pluto Files, he is the author of eight other books, including Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, a New York Times bestseller, and The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, a personal memoir. He co-authored Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, a companion book to Origins, a PBS NOVA miniseries in which Tyson was on-camera host. He is also monthly essayist for Natural History magazine.

Tyson was born in New York City in 1958 and graduated from Bronx High School of Science. Passionate about astronomy from an early age, he was actively encouraged by Carl Sagan to enroll in the undergraduate program at Cornell, where Sagan taught. Opting instead for Harvard, Tyson earned a B.A. degree in physics in 1980. He went on to earn an M.A. in astronomy

at the University of Texas in 1983 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Columbia in 1991. He is also the holder of many honorary doctorate degrees—including one from the University of Richmond. He joined the staff of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in 1996.

A leading researcher in his field, Tyson’s special interests include star formation, explod-ing stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. He obtains his research data from the Hubble telescope and from Earth-based

telescopes in North and South America. He is past chairman and now president of the Planetary Society. In 2001, he was appointed by President Bush to the 12-member federal commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry. In 2004, he received a presidential appointment to a 9-member commission on the implementation of the United States space exploration policy. He is also on the prestigious Advisory Council of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Tyson’s contributions to public understand-ing and appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their naming of an asteroid, 13123 Tyson. Tyson lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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Tonight’s moderator has been looking to the stars ever since his father, a Physics professor, became the first American to spot and report Sputnik 1 during its first orbital pass over the United States in 1957.

By the seventh grade, Jim Lehman was himself

an accomplished astronomer and was operating the Spitz projector in the planetarium at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Virginia for school groups. As an eighth grader he assembled a color television, completing it just in time for the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Jim has since made a career of bringing his passion for space, science and math to the region’s school children. Jim began his teaching career in Hanover County, before moving to Mills

Godwin High School in Henrico where he taught physics and astronomy and advised an award-winning student astronomy club. Since 2008 Jim has been an instructor at the MathScience Innovation Center (see below), teaching physics, environmental science, and nanotechnology to students from eight area school systems.

Jim has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, including a GTE Gift Grant, and has been a Virginia finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and a two-time recipient of the R.E.B. award for teaching. These awards have allowed Jim to hike to Base Camp at Mount Everest, ride his bicycle across the U.S., and travel to the Greek Isles to view a solar eclipse, each time bringing the experience back to his students.

Jim lives with his wife and two children in Richmond.

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the

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Coming to Our SensesBy Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our eyes are special detectors. They allow us to

register information not only from across the

room but from across the universe. Without

vision, the science of astronomy would never

have been born and our capacity to measure

our place in the universe would have been

hopelessly stunted. Think of bats. Whatever bat

secrets gets passed from one generation to the

next, you can bet that none of them are based

on the appearance of the night sky.

When thought of as an ensemble of ex-

perimental tools, our collective senses enjoy an

astonishing acuity and range of sensitivity. Our

ears can register the thunderous launch of the

space shuttle, yet they can also hear a mosquito

buzzing a foot away from our head. Our sense

of touch allows us to feel the magnitude of a

bowling ball dropped on our big toe, just as

we can tell when a one-milligram bug crawls

along our arm. Some people enjoy munching

on habanero peppers while sensitive tongues

can identify the presence of food flavors on

the level of parts per million. And our eyes can

register the bright sandy terrain on a sunny

beach, yet these same eyes have no trouble

spotting a lone match, freshly lit, hundreds of

feet across a darkened auditorium.

Before we get carried away in praise of

ourselves, note that what we gain in breadth,

we lose in precision because we register the

world’s stimuli in logarithmic rather than

linear increments. For example, if you increase

the energy of a sound’s volume by a factor

of ten, your ears will judge this change to be

rather small. Increase it by a factor of two and

you will barely take notice. The same holds

for our capacity to measure light. If you have

ever viewed a total solar eclipse you may have

noticed that the Sun’s disk must be at least

ninety percent covered by the Moon before

anybody comments that the sky has darkened.

The stellar magnitude scale of brightness, the

well-known acoustic decibel scale, and the

seismic scale for earthquake severity are each

logarithmic in part because of our biological

propensity to see, hear, and feel the world that

way.

What, if anything, lies beyond our senses?

Does there exist a way of knowing that transcends

our biological interfaces with the environment?

Consider that the human machine, while

good at decoding the basics of our immediate

environment—like when it’s day or night or

when a creature is about to eat you—has very

little talent for decoding how the rest of nature

works without the tools of science. If we want

to know what’s out there then we require

detectors other than the one’s we are born

with. In nearly every case, the job of a scientific

apparatus is to transcend the breadth and depth

of our senses.

Some people boast of having a sixth

sense, where they profess to know or see

things that others cannot. Fortune-tellers, mind

readers, and mystics are at the top of this list

of those who lay claim to mysterious powers.

In so doing, they instill widespread fascination

in others, especially book publishers and

television producers. The questionable field of

parapsychology is founded on the expectation

that at least some people actually harbor this

talent. To me, the biggest mystery of them all

is why so many fortune-telling psychics chose

to work the phones on TV hotlines instead

of becoming insanely wealthy trading futures

contracts on Wall Street.

Quite independent of this profound

mystery, the persistent failures of controlled,

double-blind experiments to support the claims

of parapsychology suggest that what’s going on

is non-sense rather than sixth-sense.

On the other hand, modern science wields

dozens of senses. And scientists do not claim

these to be the expression of special powers,

just special hardware. In the end, of course, the

hardware converts the information gleaned

from these extra senses into simple tables, charts,

diagrams, or images that our inborn senses can

interpret. In the original Star Trek sci-fi series,

the crew that beamed down from their starship

to the uncharted planet always brought with

them a tricorder, which was a hand-held device

that could analyze anything they encountered,

living or inanimate, for its basic properties. As

you waved the tricorder over the object-in-

question it made an audible spacey sound that

was interpreted by the user.

Suppose a glowing blob of some unknown

substance were parked right in front of you.

Without some diagnostic tool like a tricorder

to help, humans would be clueless of the blob’s

chemical or nuclear composition. Nor could we

know whether it has an electromagnetic field,

or whether it emits strongly in gamma rays,

x-rays, ultraviolet, microwaves or radio waves.

Nor could we determine the blob’s cellular or

crystalline structure. If the blob were far out

in space, appearing as an unresolved point of

light in the sky, our five senses would offer us

no insight to its distance, velocity though space,

or its rate of rotation. We further would have

no capacity to see the spectrum of colors that

compose its emitted light, nor could we know

whether the light is polarized.

Without hardware to help our analysis,

and without a particular urge to lick the stuff, all

you can report back to the starship is, “Captain,

it’s a blob.” Apologies to Edwin P. Hubble, but

his opening remark, while poignant and poetic,

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Equipped with our five senses, along with

telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers

and seismographs and magnetometers and particle

accelerators and detectors across the electromagnetic

spectrum, we explore the universe around us and call

the adventure science.

Think of how much richer the world

would appear to us and how much earlier

the nature of the universe would have been

discovered if we were born with high-precision,

tunable eyeballs. Dial up the radio wave part of

the spectrum and the daytime sky falls as dark

as night, except for some choice locations. Our

galaxy’s center is one of the brightest spots

on the sky and is located behind some of the

principal stars of the constellation Sagittarius.

Tune into microwaves and the entire universe is

aglow with a remnant from the early universe,

a wall of light set forth 300,000 years after the

big bang. Tune into x-rays and the locations of

black holes, with matter spiraling into them, are

spotted immediately. Tune into gamma rays and

see titanic explosions scattered throughout the

universe at a rate of about one per day. Watch

the effect of the explosion on the surrounding

material is it heats up and glows in other bands

of light.

If we were born with magnetic detectors,

the compass would never have been invented

because we wouldn’t ever need one. Just tune into

Earth’s magnetic field lines and the direction

of magnetic North looms like Oz beyond the

horizon. If we had spectrum analyzers within

our retinas, we would not have to wonder what

was in the air we were breathing. We could just

look at it and know whether or not it contained

sufficient oxygen to sustain human life. And we

would have learned thousands of years ago that

the stars and nebulae in the galaxy contain the

same chemical elements found here on Earth.

And if we were born with big eyes and

built-in Doppler motion detectors, we would

have seen immediately, even as grunting troglo-

dytes, that the entire universe is expanding—all

distant galaxies are receding from us.

If our eyes had the resolution of high-

performance microscopes, nobody would have

ever blamed the plague and other sicknesses

on divine wrath. The bacteria and viruses that

made you sick would be in plain view as they

crawled on your food or as they slid through

open wounds in your skin. With simple experi-

ments, you could easily tell which of these bugs

were bad and which were good. And of course

post-operative infection problems would have

been identified and solved hundreds of years

earlier.

If we could detect high-energy particles,

we would spot radioactive substances from

great distances. No Geiger counters necessary.

You could even watch radon gas seep through

the basement floor of your home and not have

to pay somebody to tell you about it.

The honing of our senses from birth

through childhood allows us as adults to pass

judgment on events and phenomena in our

lives, declaring whether or not they “make

sense.” Problem is, hardly any scientific discov-

eries of the past century flowed from the direct

application of our five senses. They flowed

instead from the direct application of sense-

transcendent mathematics and hardware. This

simple fact is entirely responsible for why, to the

average person, relativity, particle physics, and

ten-dimensional string theory make no sense.

Include in the list black holes, wormholes, and

the big bang. Actually, these ideas don’t make

much sense to scientists either, until we have

explored the universe for a long time with all

senses that are technologically available. What

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) emerges, eventually, is a newer and higher level

of “common sense” that enables a scientist to

think creatively and to pass judgment in the

unfamiliar underworld of the atom or in the

mind-bending domain of higher dimensional

space. The twentieth-century German physicist

Max Planck made a similar observation about

the discovery of quantum mechanics:

Modern Physics impresses us particularly with

the truth of the old doctrine which teaches that there

are realities existing apart from our sense-perceptions,

and that there are problems and conflicts where these

realities are of greater value for us than the richest

treasures of the world of experience.

Our five senses even interfere with sensible

answers to stupid metaphysical questions like, “If

a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to

hear it, did it make a sound?” My best answer is,

“How do you know it fell?” But that just gets

people angry. So I offer a senseless analogy, “Q:

If you can’t smell the carbon monoxide, then

how do you know it’s there? A: You drop dead.”

(Natural gas is also odorless to the human nose.

For our protection, a pungent smell is added

so that gas leaks can be safely identified and

located.) In modern times, if the sole measure

of what’s out there flows from your senses then

a precarious life awaits you.

Discovering new ways of knowing has

always heralded new windows on the universe—

new detectors we can add to our growing list of

non-biological senses. Whenever this happens,

a new level of majesty and complexity in the

universe reveals itself to us, as though we were

technologically evolving into super-sentient

beings, always coming to our senses.

Reprinted with the permission of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Excerpted from “Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries,” (W.W. Norton & Company, 2007), pp. 25-30.

Science Museum of Virginia Planetarium

LiveSky programs occur the third Friday of every month and take participants on a guided tour of the current night sky. There is an opportunity to ask questions and make requests of the astronomer host. Contact the Science Museum of Virginia for exact times and costs (804) 864-1400 or www.smv.org.

Keeble Observatory

The Keeble Observatory is a teaching laboratory of the Physics Department at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland. Weekly public viewing sessions are held (weather permitting) during the academic year. For information on viewing conditions and times, contact the Keeble Observatory: (804) 752-3210, ext. 5578, or Professor George Spagna, (804) 752-7344.

Richmond Astronomical Society Founded in 1949, the Richmond Astronomical Society (RAS) owns an observatory—the Ragland Observatory—with a seven-inch refractor telescope for the use of qualified members. RAS also works closely with the Science Museum of Virginia in sponsoring special sky watches and Astronomy Day programs. For more information, visit www.richastro.org.

Galaxy Zoo Help astronomers explore the Universe from the comfort of your own home. Amateurs around the world are helping to classify millions of galaxies according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer. www.galaxyzoo.org

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Susan Greenbaum Recording Artist and Songwriter

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Kathleen Maccio Holman Davenport & Company LLP

Michael S. Laming Genworth Financial, Inc.

Lyn McDermid Dominion

Linda Powell Pruitt Leadership Metro Richmond

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Felicia Cosby City of Richmond

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1992 October Barbara Walters January Margaret Thatcher February Larry King with General Norman Schwarzkopf March “DNA: From Catching Criminals to Constructing Dinosaurs” Patricia Cornwell, Dr. Victor McKusick and Dr. Marc Micozzi April Mark Russell

1993 October Terry Anderson January “Japanese/American Trade Debate” with Hiroki Kato and T. Boone Pickens February Dr. Joyce Brothers March Bill Cosby April Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with Cokie Roberts

1994 November “America in the Year 2000” Lamar Alexander, Marvin Cetron, Senator Warren Rudman and Chris Wallace January Louis Rukeyser with Frank Cappiello and Michael Holland February President George H. W. Bush March Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross April Bob Newhart

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Following a failed attempt to climb the highest peak in Pakistan in 1993, an exhausted Mortenson was taken in by the residents of a small village. To repay their kindness, he promised to return to build a school for their children, even though he would be sleeping in his car upon his return to the States. Today, he has built over 100 schools in the most remote and volatile areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, at great risk to his own personal safety. Greg will share his inspirational story, made famous in Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time, which has become both a best seller and a State Department must-read. Mortenson’s much anticipated follow-up book, Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan is scheduled for release on December 1st.

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