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Understanding science: what we cannot know
Understanding science: what we cannot know

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Acknowledgements

This week was written by Tony Jones. The course is adapted from the book What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy.

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Figure 1: National Physical Laboratory (NPL): https://www.npl.co.uk/famous-faces/louis-essen

Figure 5: A photographic negative of the eclipse of 1919: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1919_eclipse_positive.jpg

Figure 6: Space flowing into a black hole: Courtesy Professor Andrew Hamilton https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/waterfall.html

Figure 7: Cygnus A: National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) / Associated Universities, Inc. (AU): https://astronomynow.com/2016/10/25/hotspots-in-cygnus-a-an-active-galactic-nucleus

Figure 8: The black hole in the centre of the galaxy M87; Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: https://eventhorizontelescope.org https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 9: The process of ‘spaghettification’ NASA / Laura A. Whitlock, Kara C. Granger, Jane D. Mahon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spaghettification_(from_NASA%27s_Imagine_the_Universe!)

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Video 7: Wonders of the Universe – Black Holes; BBC series: Wonders of the Universe. Episode title: Falling. BBC2 © BBC

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