The Future of Cosmology - NPR Science Friday on sight broardcast - October 10, 2003

On October 10, 2003, on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland Ohio, I got to attend an onsite broadcast of NPR's Science Friday. It was in conjuction with the opening of The Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics (CERCA), started by Lawrence Krauss, and had in attendance over 70 of the worlds most renowned physicist. This was a 3 day event which started with a talk the previous night, by Stephen Weinberg, and ended the following Monday night with a sold out talk by Stephen Hawking (I didn't have a ticket at the time). I took my video camera with me, and this video is from that camera. I got to ask the 1st question from the audience in attendance (I am off camera, to the right, though I can be seen on Case Western Reserve University's video which they shot and is archived on their website. Good luck trying to view it though). As I was asking the question, Saul Perlmutter quickly came down the isle and sat to my right. After the question was answered, I shook his hand and went back to my seat. So in effect, though he had not yet won his Nobel Prize, with the shaking of Steven Weinberg's hand after this event, I got to shake the hand of 2 Nobel laureates. When I got back to my seat, a representive from the city introduced himself to me and gave me his card. That jesture, 3 days later, lead to my attending the sold out Stephen Hawking talk. But before that Monday evening talk, after the NPR broadcast, as I was leaving the building, who do I bump into but Stephan Hawking, so I turned my video camera back on and taped it. That was the cherry on the top of what was a great day for me, and It's at the end of this program. I hope you enjoy it.