MIT Writers presents . . .
The Physics of Star Trek
author
Lawrence M. Krauss
Friday March 19, 1999
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Wong Auditorium
Building E51
2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
free and open to the public - no tickets required
"Fun...Always Enlightening.... Mr. Krauss is smart, as befits a big-time scientist, but be speaks and writes the common tongue."
------New York Times Book Review
Dr. Krauss will take you on a warp speed journey through the world of physics as we know it and as it one day might be.
- What warps when you're travelling at warp speed?
- What happens when you get beamed up?
- Is time travel really possible?
With slides, props, and video images, as well as wit and charm, Dr. Krauss will make accessible topics ranging from time travel to warp speed, from the Big Bang to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
"Today's science fiction is often tomorrow's science fact. The physics that underlies Star Trek is surely worth investigating."
---From the foreward by Stephen Hawking
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and the Physics Department
For more information, call 617/253-7894
MIT Program in Writing - 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
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