20251119 MPAS meeting with Juan Maldacena & PI

Society monthly meeting recorded on 20251119 at The Briars Mount Martha Observatory.

Meeting introduction was by the President, Dr. Peter Skilton.

Vice President, Chris Kostokanellis then presented the Astrophotographic challenge for the month, followed by Committee member, Dr. Guido Tack, presenting the Sky for the Month. Then member, John Goodall, gave a presentation about Astrophotography using Film.

The main topic was about "The Meaning of Spacetime: Black Holes, Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement", presented by Prof. Juan Maldacena, Theoretical Physicist, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. This public lecture is courtesy of the Perimeter Institute, Ontario, Canada, and was hosted on 27-Jul-2023 by Dr. Sabrina Pasterski of the Perimeter Institute.

Educational science videos then followed:

*"Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity", presented by Scott Manley, BSc Physics & Astronomy MSc Computational Physics, University of Glasgow, courtesy of his Scott Manley YouTube channel.

*"Preparing for Martian Explorers: NASA's ESCAPADE Investigates Mars Space Weather). courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre.

A musical closure followed, showing the ESCAPADE twin spacecraft launch on 20251113 from Cape Canaveral Space Centre, Florida, on a New Glenn 2 rocket. The video is courtesy of Blue Origin, and is set to the audio of "Action" by Infraction, courtesy of the [No Copyright Music] channel.