13 time and space journeys. Christmas lectures of the Royal Institution of Great Britain

A collection of lectures of the Royal Institute of Great Britain is an opportunity to trace how discoveries in astronomy and physics changed a person’s idea of ​​space. If at the time of the first lecture the flight to the moon seemed a distant dream, then at the beginning of the 21st century people are already studying the possibilities of colonization of Mars. A little less than a century ago it was possible to establish that our universe is expanding. And after only a few decades, scientists tried to recreate the first moments after a large explosion using particle accelerators. In the last century, the scientific idea of ​​what the time has changed completely, and today hopes to look through time no longer seemed utopian. As well as the chances of finding a reasonable life in the universe