TED talks: Our place in the cosmos. Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe.
Carter Emmart uses astronomy and computational modeling to create scientifically accurate, three-dimensional tours of our universe.
“My job is to translate the difficulty of science into understandable stories.” (Carter Emmart)
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For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how it’s being shared with facilities around the world.
As the Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History, Carter Emmart directs their groundbreaking space shows and heads up development of an interactive 3D atlas called The Digital Universe. He coordinates scientists, programmers and artists to produce scientifically accurate yet visually stunning and immersive space experiences in the AMNH’s Hayden Planetarium. Over the last decade, he has directed four shows: “Passport to the Universe”, “The Search for Life: Are we Alone?”, “Cosmic Collisions” and “Journey to the Stars”.
Emmart’s interest in space began early, and at ten he was taking astronomy courses in the old Hayden. As a child born into a family of artists, he naturally combined his love of science with his tendency for visualization. His first work was in architectural modeling, soon moving on to do scientific visualization for NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, before joining the AMNH.
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TRANSCRIPT
The flat horizon that we’ve evolved with has been a metaphor for the infinite, unbounded resources and unlimited capacity for disposal of waste. It wasn’t until we really left Earth, got above the atmosphere and had seen the horizon bend back on itself that we could understand our planet as a limited condition. The Digital Universe Atlas has been built at the American Museum of Natural History over the past 12 years. We maintain that, put that together as a project to really chart the universe across all scales. What we see here are satellites around the Earth, and the Earth in proper registration against the universe, as we see. NASA supported this work 12 years ago as part of the rebuilding of the Hayden Planetarium so that we would share this with the world.
The Digital Universe is the basis of our space show productions that we do — our main space shows in the dome. But what you see here is the result of actually internships that we hosted with Linkoping University in Sweden. I’ve had 12 students work on this for their graduate work. And the result has been this software called Uniview and a company called SCISS in Sweden. This software allows interactive use. So this actual flight path and movie that we see here was actually flown live. I captured this live from my laptop in a cafe called Earth Matters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where I live. And it was done as a collaborative project with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art for an exhibit on comparative cosmology.
And so as we move out, we see continuously from our planet all the way out into the real of galaxies as we see here, light travel time, giving you a sense of how far away we are. As we move out, the light from these distant galaxies have taken so long, we’re essentially backing up into the past. We back so far up we’re finally seeing a containment around us — the afterglow of the Big Bang. This is the WMAP microwave background that we see. We’ll fly outside it here, just to see this sort of containment. If we were outside this, it would almost be meaningless, in the sense as before time. But this our containment of the visible universe. We know the universe is bigger than that which we can see.
And just in closing, I’d just like to say this beautiful world that we live on — Here we see a bit of the snow that some of you may have had to brave in coming out. So I’d like to just say that what the world needs now is a sense of being able to look at ourselves in this much larger condition now and a much larger sense of what home is. Because our home is the universe, and we are the universe, essentially. We carry that in us. And to be able to see our context in this larger sense at all scales helps us all in understanding where we are and who we are in the universe.
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Duration : 0:7:31
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Anyway, I hope this …
Anyway, I hope this helped you understand a little bit about what we believe and why we don’t feel that it’s based on faith..
I don’t think you should give up your faith if you don’t want to, but you should really reconsider the validity of the story of genesis.. After all, the passages in the bible have been changed and mistranslated by man for thousands of years..
Throwing the parts …
Throwing the parts of a computer in a hole is very different from how particles come together.. For example: If you throw a piece of iron into water, the oxygen particles in the water and the iron particles come together to form iron-oxide.. (rust)
This is why particles and computer parts are nothing alike, and chance has little to do with the assembly of the first DNA molecules on Earth..
Abiogenesis hasn’t …
Abiogenesis hasn’t been fully demonstrated in a lab, but scientists have been able to get the basic building blocks to assemble..
The problem is that a lab’s size is limited compared to all the area on earth that life could have assembled on.. It’s hard to know exactly where it happened and what the conditions were like..
I know it seems like a stretch that life can just assemble, but it’s not just a matter of chance, it’s a matter of chemistry..
@mscommonsense100
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@mscommonsense100
As lastlogic says, evolution doesn’t cover that..
The most popular theory is abiogenesis..
Other people believe that an asteroid covered with bacteria hit the Earth, and bacteria has always existed..
Abiogenesis is the one that I accept.. I’ll go on about that in the next comment.. (character limit)
@mscommonsense100 …
@mscommonsense100 evolution doesnt talk about how the world was created.Evolution is about how species change and become more diverse over time.it doesnt take faith to not be a creationist if the answer isnt known then isnt it better to look for it than to make up an answer?
The universe is …
The universe is simply beautiful. Why people need to create imaginary sky daddies for meaning is beyond me.
@mscommonsense100 …
@mscommonsense100 Scientific evidence certainly do not tie the creation of the earth with the creation of life as we know it. The evolution from the big-bang to now is pretty much under scrutiny & analysis by scientists & every step of the way, progress is made unraveling the mysteries of how we are here. Beyond the big-bang, our vision is however blurred and if you want to place God there, that is fine with me.
@skinnym974 What I …
@skinnym974 What I am trying to say is that as a creationist, I believe this earth started when the Creator created this world. As an evolutionist, one would have to believe that this world had to start with something. Whatever that something is, my simple question is where did that “something” come from? It takes faith to believe either viewpoint. I chooose to believe creation, and I see proofs and reflections of a creator in nature.
@mscommonsense100 A …
@mscommonsense100 A miss-understanding on your side perhaps, scientists do question gravity (that force caused by “gravitons” is to be demonstrated and understood for a unified theory, the search for the Higg’s particle is at the heart of the finding of mass, etc …) as well as any other form of un-proven natural mechanism and occurrence leading to an observable. Religion however ask us to believe without proof which myself, I find to be “convenient” and certainly beyond logic.
@muslimbro1
As …
@muslimbro1
As for “expanding the heavens” It is the same basic theological cosmology of the Earth below and the Heavens above stretched over it. No special insight and pure re-interpretation based on latter scientific discoveries. As I said, give me something that is actually clear and direct. E=MC^2 or something to that effect. Nothing ambiguous that might mean this or that depending on what later turns out to be correct. Something straightforward and testable please.
@muslimbro1
How …
@muslimbro1
How are they vague?
How are they specific? It talks of heavens and the earth being one. What does that mean?
It talks of splitting the earth from the Heavens. Again what does that mean? It’s open to various interpretations with no guarantee that later interpretations have any correlation to the original intent of the author.
As for making life from water. It’s still the same basic claim of “poof” there’s life. No detail or specifics.
@muslimbro1
The …
@muslimbro1
The context of the times leaves little doubt that “heavens” meant sky.
@Tenebrous76 what …
@Tenebrous76 what else could it be refering to? heavens doesnt have to mean sky,
@Tenebrous76 How …
@Tenebrous76 How are these verses vague, please explain? thanks you
@mscommonsense100 …
@mscommonsense100 what will the church say if CERN discover that we live a multiple dimension universe? It has been prove by mathematics and they’re now trying to find out if the theory is correct. Will they change their “holy” book or announce one more time the end of all the living fearing that if scientists discover the truth about our universe they’ll lose more followers on their sects?
@Asiablue people …
@Asiablue people fear what they don’t know is what i should have said.
You can look at a …
You can look at a model of our solar system and understand why the sun rises..
Gravity is a displacement of inertia caused by massive objects stretching space..
The first law of thermodynamics is because atoms don’t disappear.. or form from nothing..
etc. etc. etc…
@mscommonsense100
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@mscommonsense100
Yes we do question certain things in our universe.. That’s why I understand why those things are the way they are..
They don’t happen BECAUSE of science.. Science is just there to find out why they happen..
God is just your way of understanding why they happen.. Because when science is too tough, some people just prefer to say that it happened by magic..
@JesterAzazel I …
@JesterAzazel I think you’re missing my point. We don’t question certain things in our universe (i.e. rising and setting of the sun, gravity, laws of thermodynamics, etc.)
Why don’t we question these things? Because they have consistently happened. Do you believe these things occur simply because of science and that it has always been. If so, I would have to disagree. I would say God the Creator.He wouldn’t be God if He could only do what we are capable of doing and understanding.
@Asiablue i dont ” …
@Asiablue i dont “believe” like in a religion sense, but i do think that it’s the best way to go about, yes
@JesterAzazel Can’t …
@JesterAzazel Can’t we just all get along, LMAO
@javonoUTube
I …
@javonoUTube
I wasn’t generalizing, I was responding to certain people.. That’s why there’s a little “@” at the beginning..
And when I mentioned creationists that believe that the world is 6000 years old, the operative word was “SOME”.. I didn’t say that all of them do.. I didn’t even mention theists in general, just “some creationists”..
@javonoUTube
So I …
@javonoUTube
So I answered you question in a civil way and you completely misrepresented what I said and tried to insult me..
And you wonder why so many atheists judge you people before getting to know you..
Good thing there are still a few of us that actually give theists a chance..
@JesterAzazel You …
@JesterAzazel You categorize them here in this forum, and assign generic attributes to them. I’ve read yours and the other anti-religion/athiest comments. You are totally ignorant, people are far more diverse than you give them credit for.
@javonoUTube
I …
@javonoUTube
I didn’t say that I don’t know much about science, I said that I don’t know much about him.. I don’t need to know his life story to accept his theories..
Try again after some classes in reading comprehension..
I never said that all Xians share the same beliefs either.. Try again without the straw man..