ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE:
FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME
TO THE END OF sPACE

JANNA LEVIN
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Barnard College
Columbia University

Wednesday 19 September
5:00–6:30 pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum
3260 South Street, Penn Campus

The universe was created 14 billion years ago in one very big bang. We know remarkable details about the first few incredible moments in our universe’s history, but the instant of creation remains a mystery. Did time itself begin at that moment? Did space come into being then, too? Have there been other big bangs, or is our universe the only one? Cosmologist (and novelist) Janna Levin unfolds what we know of the origin of the universe and what we don’t—from the origin of time to the end of space.