The Earth Age: reliving the first laboratory astrophysics experiment
The project aims to reproduce the first laboratory astrophysics experiment in the history of science, the one Buffon used to calculate the Earth Age.
Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 15h00Passé
Musée & Parc Buffon
The experiment of cooling Buffon’s balls is the first that exploits all the conceptual formalism of laboratory astrophysics: miniaturisation of an astrophysical system, laws of scale, etc.
Note: under the direction of Emeric Falize, astrophysicist.