NSN Webinar Series: Brief History of Everything with Dr. Patrick C. Breysse

Dr. Patrick C. Breysse joined NASA Night Sky Network on Tuesday, May 28 at 6:00 PM Pacific Time (9:00 PM Eastern), where we discussed how the Universe moved from hot hydrogen gas to what we know today!

About Patrick Breysse:

Dr. Patrick Breysse is currently a James Arthur Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, joining the faculty at Southern Methodist University as an Assistant Professor of Physics this fall. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. Patrick’s research focuses on a new way of mapping the distant universe which can watch the earliest stars form, study how the universe evolves, and look for new physics beyond standard models. He also plays the euphonium (kind of a small tuba), and enjoys hiking and science fiction novels.

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[jesusalbertoponcedeleon]

Thanks Dr Breysee, in one hour you covered so much material! Easy to follow, very didactic, great images, great content, I wish I had your skills when I was a faculty and be capable of condensing so much material and take by the hand the audience into a 13.8 billion year journey in one hour. Filled with technical explanations made easy!

[nutier]

Amazing video that I love ! Thank you for sharing . Happy Sunday to you !

[loopbraider]

This was a really wonderful presentation. Dr. Breysse not only covered the formation of the universe - or rather what is known about its formation - in terms that even non-cosmologists can understand, but also talked about his work on something I had heard nothing about before: using radio telescopes to look for radio waves from carbon monoxide molecules in the gas clouds of star-forming areas of the distant universe, in order to map out a whole important region that hasn't been mapped before, the 'missing' 2 billion years in the history of the universe when the first stars and galaxies formed. The JWST can look back into that time period, but not with a large enough field to be able to show the larger structures of the universe back then. This was really amazing to hear about. Some of these findings might eventually help solve a lot of unknowns, even things like the nature of dark matter and dark energy, on top of understanding more about how those first stars and galaxies formed. Loved the grand finale / ending slide!
Thank you Dr. Breysse and Night Sky Network.

[nsando]

I want to know where the "hot plasma cloud" came from. Where did the protons and electrons and all the xrays etc. come from in the first place?! These questions keep me up at night. Good presentation. I learned a few things I didn't know before.

[AstroComposerKarE]

Woohoo! I'm a low brass player too! Bass trombonist here.