Treating the Universe to a Cup of Coffee, or Two | Jessica Gaskin | TEDxModena Women

The year is 1054. Imagine that you're walking home after a long day of work. It's very dark, no street lights, no cell phones.And then you happen to look up and when you do, you see an incredibly bright flash of light and then seemingly out of nowhere appears this bright light. In fact, it was so bright it would have been visible during the day. The people of the northern song dynasty would have considered this a profoundly significant astronomical event.In fact, it proclaimed that an abundantly enlightened ...