Critical Mass Subscribers: Send in Questions for our Inaugural Public Science Events Nov 15th &16th
I will select subscriber questions for Richard Dawkins on the 15th, & Barry Barish, Alan Guth, John Mather, & Kip Thorne on the 16th, to be read during the audience Q&A, and recorded for later airing.
Have a question about Science, Life and the Cosmos that you would like to pose to one of our guest speakers at our Inaugural Origins Project Foundation Public Events Nov 15, 16th, but can’t attend the events at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix? Critical Mass subscribers can reply with comments to this post with your questions. Please include your name, and location. I will select a set of these questions to be read during the Q&A’s each night. Because the event is being recorded for later airing on Critical Mass, you will be able to hear the answers to your questions then.
Thanks for helping contribute to make this two-night celebration of science more exciting and informative!
How did it go? I actually dreamt about the event last night (that i was there in person). Will there be video?
For Richard Dawkins: In "The Greatest Show on Earth", you describe how cave salamanders lost their eyes, because eyes come at a cost and because "most mutations are disadvantageous, if only because they are random and there are many more ways of getting worse than there are ways of getting better." What does this mean for us, with modern medicine and very little natural selection (thankfully)? Does the gene pool of humans slowly accumulate bad mutations, and if so, might genetic engineering save us in the long run? Love your books, Kind regards from Switzerland, Patrick