July is the Month of Discovery
Join us at the Digital Dome as we celebrate National Science Month! Ignite curiosity, celebrate discovery, and shape tomorrow with our incredible lineup of special guest speakers and exclusive shows.
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This includes:
- Fulldome public shows followed by a science talk for school children during the school holidays
- Public talks by eminent scientists
- Science Quizzes
- Free telescope viewings every Friday 18:00 - 20:30
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Get your team together and put your science knowledge to the test
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Please arrive early to access the Wits University security gate and then to park; once the public show starts, late entry is strictly not allowed.
Passport to the Universe + Astronomy Talk
The show will be followed by a talk titled "Changing the invisible: light-light interactions." Not all forms of light are equal to us or the things around us. Some we see, some we don't. Some go through specific objects and others don't. They also behave differently when you use instruments made of glass, metal, and even living tissue! In this talk we will go over the different effects that can happen when you shine light on an object and pivot to the field of nonlinear optics where stranger effects happen that we do not see on everyday life..
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Cosmic Collisions + Astronomy Talk
Cosmic Collisions presents the spectacular result of gravity pulling together planets, stars, and galaxies. This will be followed by a talk by Dr Tanita Ramburuth-Hurt on "We are made of star dust" on how metals in the Universe are created and make up the building blocks we are made of, meaning that we are literally made of star dust.
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Dark Universe + Astronomy Talk
Dark Universe celebrates the pivotal discoveries that have led us to greater knowledge of the structure and history of the universe and our place in it, to new frontiers for exploration, while revealing the breakthroughs that have led astronomers to confront two great cosmic mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. This will be followed by a talk by Javeria Makda on The hidden pieces of the Universe puzzle.
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Search For Life + Quantum Physics Talk
The Search for Life launches visitors on an awe-inspiring trip through space and time, from the depths of Earth’s oceans to the outer reaches of the cosmos, to explore the links between life on Earth and the potential for life on other planets. This will be followed by a talk on Quantum Twins: Entangled Light and Its Wonders by Neelan Gounden where we will explore the strange yet beautiful phenomenon of quantum entanglement in paired photons. No prior physics background is needed, just curiosity about how the universe plays its most surprising tricks.
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Public Talk
We are entering a phase where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in discovering fundamental science and in healthcare. After reviewing the latest developments in both areas - including research from South African hospitals - we will explore how AI will revolutionise science before 2030 and critically examine the serious implications AI progress holds for research, academia, society and Africa.
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Public Talk
On 25 August 2024, videos and photographs surfaced on social media of a bright, rapidly-moving fireball in the sky above the Eastern Cape Province that was followed by loud thunder and ground tremors. What became known as the Nqweba Event captured international attention and delivered a rare type of meteorite. In this talk, Prof. Roger Gibson of the School of Geosciences will describe South Africa's meteorite heritage and present the results of the scientific investigation into the fireball phenomenon and the meteorite.
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Public Talk
Take a look around you and you will inevitably find a lens: on your smartphone or someone wearing glasses. These lenses are made of glass, but it need not be so. In this talk we will see how lenses can be made from objects as large as galaxies to thinner than a human hair. They can be made of fire, of water and pulled out of thin air. They can be quantum, imaging objects with no apparent lens at all, or folded up and put in your pocket. In this talk we will explore the most common element in optics and see how it is transforming the power of light.
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Public Talk
Black holes are Universe's most dramatic objects: born in stellar collapse, fed by glowing disks of matter, revealed through gravitational waves, and now imaged at horizon scales, thus transforming them from strange mathematical possibilities in Einstein’s theory of gravity into real objects present even in our very own galaxy. They sit at the meeting point of our two best descriptions of nature: Einstein’s theory of gravity, which explains space, time and the large-scale universe, and quantum theory, which governs the microscopic world. In this talk, Sam van Leuven uses black holes as a doorway into holography, that spacetime itself may emerge from a deeper quantum description.
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