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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 12: Didaktische Aspekte der Relativitätstheorie

GR 12.5: Talk

Thursday, March 16, 2017, 10:10–10:30, SFG 0140

Big Bang Observation and Theory at School — •Hans-Otto Carmesin — Gymnasium Athenaeum, 21680 Stade, Harsefelder Straße 40 — Studienseminar Stade, Bahnhodstraße 5, 21682 Stade — Universität Bremen, Fachbereich 1, Pf 330440, 28334

Students discovered the age of the universe by their own and understood the observation by elementary methods.

Students of age 12 and older took photographs with an 11 inch telescope at the school observatory. With these photographs, the students achieved an overview of the visible universe and concluded the Big Bang. In an alternative observation the students determined the age of the universe spectroscopically.

The students modelled the expansion of the universe with Newtonian cosmology and with quantum gravity.