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Event name

How We Have Understood the Universe

When

Thu 12 / 10 / 2020
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Where

Online Zoom event

Who can attend

Open to all

Limited Capacity: 59 spots available

Price

FREE

Please note: Registration is a two step process. 1) Register with Cheverly Village using the Red Button above, then 2) Register with the sponsor of this event using the link sent in your confirmation email. Cheverly Village Members may contact Coordinator at 240-770-1033 for help with registrations.

There is an early deadline for registration for this event.

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From the earliest times, women and men have looked at the night sky and wondered about it all. They observed the moon phases and the appearance of constellations at regular places and times in the night’s horizon (the Zodiac). The Greeks specifically recorded the consistent retrograde movements of five wanderers (“planets” in Greek) amongst all stars, which they strove to explain in an orderly earth-centered Universe. It was only early in the 17th century that Kepler described the solar system correctly, and late in that century that Newton published the laws which underpin not only the planets’ movements but all classical gravitational phenomena. It took Einstein at the beginning of the 20th century to synthesize and justify the laws of gravity, and numerous followers later in that century to establish quantum mechanics as the theory which explains what the basic constituents of the Universe are and how they behave. 

Pierre Larroque obtained a degree in mathematics and sciences from École Polytechnique in Paris. After a master’s in economics and finance from Stanford University, he joined the World Bank to help fund natural resources (mining, oil & refineries, petrochemicals) projects in Emerging Markets. From there, and for the remainder of his career, Pierre held increasingly senior positions in corporate finance with leading global investment banks for natural resources transactions. Pierre has always been interested in, and studied, the history of Ancient Greece and the development of mathematics and philosophy.  

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