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    ‘I want you to live forward, but see backward’: a theoretical astrophysicist’s manifesto

    The theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack at North Carolina State University is known for her work on dark matter, as well as her science-outreach efforts. In this short video essay, Mack weaves together cosmology and poetry as she details her personal mission to make her work enhance and challenge our understanding of the Universe, and by extension, ourselves. She writes: ‘I want to make you wonder what is out there; what dreams may come in waves of radiation across the breadth of an endless expanse; what we may know given time; and what splendors might never, ever reach us.’

    Video by Katie Mack

    Website: North Carolina State University College of Sciences

    12 February 2019
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