The Earth Age: reliving the first laboratory astrophysics experiment

Name: The Earth Age: reliving the first laboratory astrophysics experiment
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée et parc Buffon

The project aims to reproduce the first laboratory astrophysics experiment in the history of science, the one Buffon used to calculate the Earth Age.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Free entry

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.

Types d'événement

Atelier / Démonstration / Savoir-faire

Thème 2022

No selection

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Musée et parc Buffon

Rue du Parc, 21500 Montbard

Côte-d'Or
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Buffon Park: former Castle of the Dukes of Burgundy