Mega Meet begins Friday August 22 at Pulpit Rock
LVAAS General Meeting at South Mountain
Sunday, September 14, 7 p.m. at LVAAS South Mountain Headquarters
Presenter is in person
"The Inflationary Universe"
Featuring Joe Zitarelli
While walking through the Library I saw the book, The Inflationary Universe by Alan H. Guth. While I felt I had a basic understanding of the Big Bang Theory and that Inflation was necessary to solve some issues with the original theory, I realized I actually knew very little about what exactly inflation was. I was aware that Alan Guth is generally given credit for first proposing the Theory of Cosmic Inflation, so what better place than his book to learn about the theory. I found the theory of what happened in this brief period of time in the early Universe fascinating, and his personal story of how he went from a struggling Post Doctoral Fellow to an Associate Professor at MIT almost overnight heartwarming. I would like to share what I learned with LVAAS members in a format that requires no Mathematics, but only I desire to learn more about what current theory tells us about how our Universe began.
Joe has had an interest in Astronomy since High School. His school had a planetarium, a 20" Newtonian reflector and a Physics and Astronomy teacher who was fresh out of college and eager to use them to teach. He went on to get a BS in Physics at Penn State where he developed a particular interest in Cosmology. While he chose a different career path, his interest in Physics and Astrophysics never waned and he continued to read books on the topic. He joined LVAAS in 2019 to continue to learn more about Astronomy. He is in charge of the Library and uses Astro-Imaging as another way to learn about objects in the sky.
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