I’ve always been fascinated by doomsday predictions and have distinct memories of friends and I anxiously awaiting the predicted end of the world back in secondary school. It may have had less to do with being scared and more to do with wanting out of Maths class.
Now tonight we can find out if the world will end in 2012, and it doesn’t have anything to do with IMF and Ireland.
Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University Astrophysics will give the Royal Irish Academy Astronomy Lecture for Science Week 2010. In this talk Professor Bell Burnell will discuss such topics as:
What's all this about the end of the world in 2012? Just what is meant to happen, and how likely is it to happen? This talk examines the threats from space and explains how much truth there is in the suggestions that killer asteroids, lethal solar flares or the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way (for example) could cause the end of the Earth.
The talk is taking place this evening at 7 in the Burke Theatre, Trinity College. Admission is free and to book your place go here.
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