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Our Place in the Cosmos

with Nathan Hellner-Mestelman

abstract

We go about our daily lives with the perception that the Earth is everything there is. In this full-on big-picture presentation, we leave the Earth in the dust and consider the mind-boggling scale of the universe on the grandest levels. In both space and time, the cosmos is ridiculously enormous. In this presentation, we’ll unveil the true magnitude of the universe, its unimaginable size, its future timeline, and where we find ourselves on this mote of dust floating through it. The future of the universe is a mysterious timeline, full of mind bending weirdness. Similarly, the size of the objects out there are equally hard to grasp. While this presentation certainly can’t let us grasp the scale of the cosmos any better, it’ll instill a different view of where we really are in the universe.

bio

Nathan Hellner-Mestelman is a 15-year-old astronomy enthusiast in Grade 10. He does outreach through RASC and through The Cosmic Generation, a multinational astronomy group he cofounded. He has published astronomy articles in SkyNews magazine and Sky’s Up Magazine. He recently began producing a film/music series on the immensity of the universe, and created the short film Seeing Beyond, a vision for humanity’s future in the cosmos. His goal is to become an ambassador for spaceflight and astronomy.