As part of the Great Texts/Big Questions series go to the UCT’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) on Orange Street (UCT Hiddingh Campus) on 17 September and listen to George Ellis talk on the text: The Nature of the Physical World by Arthur Stanley Eddington.
This week’s Great Texts / Big Questions lecture will present an opportunity to hear one of the world’s leading cosmologists discuss the way scientific and everyday views of the nature of things relate to each other.
- How do relativity theory, quantum theory, and cosmological theory change our views of the world and the universe?
- How do they relate to every day life?
George Ellis, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) promises to look at some of the key features of this relation in a way that make the topics accessible to a broader audience. The lecture is inspired by ‘The Nature of the Physical World’ by early twentieth century astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Forthcoming lectures:
1 October — Mamphela Ramphele
“To what extent has our transformation process embraced the Intimate in Public Discourse?”
Text: Jonathan Jansen’s Knowledge in the Blood.
8 October — Tim Noakes
“The body is willing but the mind is weak. Or is it the other way around?”
Text: Muscular Movement in Man: The factors governing speed and recovery from fatigue by A.V. Hill, 1927.
15 October — Angelo Gobbato
Beethoven’s Fidelio – and some performances in Cape Town.
