Published in the Denver Post As an astrophysicist, Jeffrey Bennett grapples with big ideas all the time. When the cosmos is your beat, your thinking has to be as unbounded as a Voyager spacecraft. So in this centennial year of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Bennett has taken on a big task: A lecture tour […]
Space News E-mail July 11, 2015 Dear Friends, Nearly 9½ years after its launch (which I was lucky enough to see with my family in January 2006) and having traveled more than 3 billion miles from Earth, the New Horizonsspacecraft is ready to give Pluto its first close-up view! Closest approach occurs on July 14, and […]
Hear a wide-ranging, 13-minute interview at Boston Herald Radio, in which we covered topics including relativity, space exploration, global warming, and much more…
Barry Kibrick hosts in-depth interviews with authors on his outstanding book show, Between the Lines. I’ve now had the pleasure of appearing on his show four times, which he tells me makes me his most frequent guest. Here is the show for What is Relativity?’s, which we taped in November 2014 and aired on PBS […]
Great article from the Penticton Western News: http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/news/309929341.html Penticton woman takes reading program to space with NASA Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata reads from Jeffrey Bennett’s book The Wizard Who Saved the World aboard the Insternational Space Station. Penticton’s Patricia Tribe came up with the idea of promoting science through astronauts reading and doing experiments from space […]
See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture for the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures (recorded May 6, 2015 at Foothill College’s Smithwick Theater): See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture at Fiske planetarium: This year (2015) marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s publication of his general theory of relativity. Today, this theory lies at […]
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This is a video of my colloquium for faculty at Lehman College (New York) on Oct. 31, 2014.
Dear Friends, Lots of great space news lately, so I’ll try to point out a few highlights: 1. Leonid Meteor Shower. Tonight (Nov. 17/18) is the night for the annual Leonid meteor shower. As usual with meteor showers, the best viewing is in the predawn hours, though if you are at a dark enough site, […]
The following post also appears on my Huffington Post blog. ALSO: Learn about my 2015 Relativity Tour… Have you seen Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar yet? It’s generating a lot of discussion both about the story and the science, and as one of the characters explains in the movie (“that’s relativity”), the science focuses around Einstein’s theory of […]
