Splash Biography

CHARLES HILL, Crayzee Physicist

Major: Physics

College/Employer: UC Berkeley

Year of Graduation: G

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S94: Learning about the History of Time by Looking at a Very, Very Old Photograph in Splash Fall 15 (Oct. 10, 2015)

If a picture speaks 1,000 words, then photographs can tell us a lot about history. For example, I can look through my grandma's wedding photos and learn about the clothes, hairstyles, and even diets of the 1950's! Similarly, scientists use pictures of the sky (taken by very powerful telescopes) to learn about the physics of the cosmos, and because it takes time for the light to travel from stars and galaxies to us Earthlings, these pictures are actually a blast from the past! So, you may wonder...what's the furthest back in time that we can see? How about 14-billion lightyears!! Come learn about how we use telescopes all over the world to look at photographs from the earliest moments of our Universe, an itty-bitty fraction of a second after the Big Bang.