Monday, April 27, 2009

THURSDAY'S LECTURE ON "PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE" BY JONATHON POST.

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NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS EVENT AT CAL STATE UNIVERSITY AT LOS ANGELES FROM 6 PM TO 8 PM, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009.

Wayne Dennis Kurtz.
Title: "The Physics of the Impossible": Presentation and Sci-Fi Auction.
Where: (PLEASE NOTE ROOM) Alhambra Room 305, 3rd floor, the University-Student Union at Cal State L.A. (East L.A., junction of 10 & 710 freeways) - parking map at http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamapp.php
The University-Student Union is Building #5 on the map, near the northwest corner of campus.
When: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6-8 PM.

See our flyer at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=176196&id=1626349554
(WARNING: This flyer does not contain information about the room, Alhambra 305, third floor U-SU)

Science fiction writer, science teacher and one-time space program worker Jonathan Vos Post, inspired by Michio Kaku's recent bestseller of the same title, will give a talk on the futuristic technologies we see at the movies and read about in Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning novels. Teleportation, force fields, invisibility, death-ray beams, time travel, faster-than-light travel, access to parallel universes, encounters with robotic or alien intelligences: How likely are we to see these in our lifetime? And more important, even if they are possible -- should we make them reality? Just because something is technologically possible, must it be built? Is Science Fiction a Dream, or a Nightmare?

FUND-RAISING AUCTION! In order to bring you more intellectually stimulating presentations in the future, Humanist members have donated items for sale by silent auction. Minimum bids required, winning bids to be announced by the end of the program. Items for sale include Star Trek commemorative plates (most with certificates of authenticity, one with multiple autographs), a 2002 Angels world champion baseball, play programmes autographed by the play authors (Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe IV), and many books, all in good to excellent condition, including Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible, Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Christopher Hitchens'God is Not Great, Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, and more!

SPEAKER BIO. 

Jonathan Vos Post: as seen live by 10,000,000 people on the NBC-TV "Today Show",  he is a widely published author of  Science Fiction (with coauthors including Isaac AsimovRay Bradbury, and Sir Arthur C. "2001" Clarke), Science (coauthors including Nobel LaureateRichard Feynman), Poetry, Math, Drama, and other fields.  He has been a Professor of Mathematics at Woodbury University in Burbank, California and a Professor of Astronomy at Cypress College in Orange County. In his so-called spare time, he has written speeches for a major presidential candidate, won elections for local political offices, played in Rock bands, produced operas, written for comic books, rewritten movie and TV scripts, and spends more time on blogs, Facebook, and LinkedIn than his Physics professor wife considers healthy.

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Nikolai Louie
Nikolai Louie at 2:07pm April 16
It's either physics or it's impossible. You can't have it both ways.
Tom Louie
Tom Louie at 4:39pm April 16
Tell that to Michio Kaku, then. He got a best-seller by associating the words.

Anyway -- I thought one of your favorite books was The Physics of Harry Potter. Harry Potter is impossible!!!
Nikolai Louie
Nikolai Louie at 5:16pm April 16
Since when is truth determined by book sales. Harry Potter is fantasy. The physics of Harry Potter is fantasy.
Tom Louie
Tom Louie at 5:39pm April 16
Michio Kaku is Professor of Theoretical Physics at CUNY. He believes many of the advances shown by science fiction will be within our reach in 100 years or so. Obviously, the word "impossible" is being used here ironically, to illustrate most people's attitudes towards futuristic science fiction.
Nikolai Louie
Nikolai Louie at 6:19pm April 16
Oh, that's different. Never mind.
Mary Dugan
Mary Dugan at 10:43am April 17
hooray for humanists! Theists can be ok too so long as they don't try to convert me.
Jonathan Vos Post
Jonathan Vos Post at 6:24am April 23
I'm sure that Physics was impossible for some students reading this comment. But my wife earned her PhD in it, did her postdoc in it, is a professor of it, and publishes Science Fiction, so one CAN have it both ways.
Tom Louie
Tom Louie at 9:05am April 23
Jon, get off Facebook and write me that invoice.