Note the earlier-than-usual start time for this meeting
Tuesday December 15th 2015
JJ’s Bistro
3447 Waialae Avenue in Kaimuki (between 9th and 10th Avenues)
Social/dinner hour from 5.30 pm: talk starts 6.30 pm
Everybody welcome: no admission charge
Note that JJs is BYOB, but Tamura’s liquor store is right across the street.
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Dr Robert Jedicke
UH Institute for Astronomy
Einstein versus Santa
Physics is not normally considered a seasonal activity, but the advent of Christmas raises serious concerns about the validity of certain theoretical ideas. Specifically:
- Is Santa guilty of breaking the laws of physics as expressed in Einstein's theory of relativity?
- Can Santa deliver all his gifts to the good children of the world without breaking the universal limit set by the speed of light?
- Does Santa's GPS device require Einstein's intervention?
In this light-hearted presentation Robert will attempt to allay our fears.
After a brief stint as a Canadian professional football player, Robert held post-doctoral positions at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the University of Arizona's Lunar & Planetary Laboratory.
He spent several years developing image analysis software before accepting a faculty position at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii in March 2003.
Robert gave us a Science Cafe presentation on "Mini-moons" in November 2012.