The Forgotten

Unique points of view in Astronomy & Physics that were neglected.

Hindus knew the Life Cycle of Sun(9 Billion Years) without knowledge of nuclear physics? 3,500 to 35,00 years

ago. They sang instead of writing.

The Great Pyramid and Sphinx—constructed before 8,000 BC before written language?

Aristarchus—sun-centered solar system 230 BC

1700 years before Copernicus!

Hypatia—murdered for supporting Aristarchus! 400 AD

Giordano Bruno 1593—burned at stake for his ideas: like stars are suns

with planets!

Francis Bacon• Gave us the full Scientific Method.TEST YOUR HYPOTHESES IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE! The Advancement of Learning 1620

Galileo (1620), who came up with Newton’s 1st Law (inertia) and first

relativity!

John Michell discovered the idea of Black Holes in 1780!!

Because he was a Minister (rector), he was ignored.

Einstein, who never got a Nobel Prize for his relativity!!

Georges LeMaitre gave us the math forour current cosmology with dark

energy—1927.

Lise Meitner (~1930), who never got a Nobel Prize for discovering nuclear fission, because she was a woman!!

The Catholic Church redeems itself in science.

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences was founded in 1603 with the approval of Pope

Clement VIII by Prince Federico Cesi under the title “Linceorum Academia”. (Lynx – observer animal)

• In 1611, the word "telescope" was first used in public by Prince Federico Cesi at a banquet held by the pioneer scientific society, the Academy of Linceans (or Lynxes, of which he was a founder). It was held to Honor Galileo, on a grand hillside estate.

• Current members: – Stephen Hawking (black holes), – Vera Rubin (dark matter in spiral galaxies), – Ed Witten (M theory of superstrings), – Chen Ning Yang (gauge theory of particles—Nobel

prize)– Walter Thirring (dragging of space-time around

black hole)

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Pope Benedict XVI and Stephen Hawking (no Nobel Prize!)

at the Pontificate Academy of Sciences