Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan talked about space science

The world famous professor of astronomy, Trinh Xuan Thuan had a talk at the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (Vusta) with the topic of Universal Science in the morning of December 7.

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Speaking in a bad language, illustrating the lesson in English, sometimes asking the secretary to translate a few words, but Professor Nguyen Xuan Thuan's talk still appeals to Vusta's crowded hall for nearly 3 hours. clock.

Thuan's presentation has generalized the history of the creation of the human universe's concept with many different ways of thinking about the universe, from the early primitive point of view of the earth as the center of the universe, The sun is the center of the universe until the birth of the cosmological theory of countless galaxies like today.

In the story, Professor Thuan talks about the members of the solar system, from Mercury to Pluto, galaxies, nebulae, black holes. He also introduced large telescopes in the US and in the world he used.

Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan

Talking about the history of the universe, Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan said: "The universe is random or not is the view of each person. For me, the universe formed is not accidental, because the beauty is harmonious. The perfect and wonderful universe of the unified mass of this day is definitely intentional to create. "

However, according to Professor Thuan, the object that created the universe is not a specific person, like God or Buddha. He also said that if someone speaks randomly, it is fine if they give a reasonable explanation.

Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan said, if calculating the age of the universe until now is one year round (with the Big Bang explosion on January 1), then the solar system formed on 9/9, the first cell shaped on September 25, the first tree appeared on December 23, the 26/12 mammal and the first ancient person on the last day of the year - December 31.

During the talk, the professor spent almost half of his time talking about astronomical science and Buddhism."Buddhism looks inward, astronomical looks out. Science needs wisdom to analyze, do exactly with instruments like telescopes. And Buddhism uses intuition to understand the truth. Thus, Buddha Catholic and astronomical science have two different perspectives , " he said.

However, Professor Thuan said that there is a similarity between Buddhism and science. He analyzes, whether Buddhism refers to impermanence, what also changes. It is also the subject of science in the 20th century. In the past, people thought the universe was immutable, from Aristotle's point of view. But later, science proved, the universe changed, and in the universe, everything changed.

"Every thing is born, live its life and die. The Buddha also said that all things in the world exist in the form of relationships , " Professor Thuan emphasized.

At the discussion, many of the scientists' questions showed an interest in astronomy such as dark energy, the universe in the first seconds, black holes and even recent modifications in hole theory. black of Hawking, eclipse phenomenon in the perception of people causing pests, phenomenon of neutrinos faster than light.