Hi All,
For the last two years the RASC Montreal Centre has hosted acclaimed UK astronomy author, Stuart Clark at their Townsend Lectures.
He is completing his 3rd book “The Day without Yesterday” of his “Sky’s Dark Labyrinth Trilogy”. The latest book in Stuart’s Clark’s series dramatising the history of astronomy is based on the true story of Albert Einstein and George Lemaître, the two men who forged our modern understanding of the cosmos.
Synopsis
The Day without Yesterday by Stuart Clark
Europe is marching blindly into the First World War and Berlin is in a storm of nationalist marches and army recruitment. Albert Einstein anticipates the carnage to come when his university colleagues begin work on poison gas to ‘shorten the war’. He is also struggling with the collapse of his marriage in the wake of an illicit affair. Increasingly isolated, Einstein finds his academic work sidelined with few people entertaining his outlandish new way of understanding the universe. Meanwhile, in the trenches of the western front, a devoutly religious young Belgian Georges Lemaitre vows to become both a physicist and a Catholic priest if he survives. When the war ends, Einstein does make his breakthrough and is thrust into the international limelight. Lemaitre confronts him with a startling concept: that buried in the maths of the theory of relativity is a beginning of space and time, a moment when the universe came into existence – a day without yesterday. But can the priest be trusted? Or is he simply trying to foist a version of Biblical Genesis onto Einstein’s now world famous theory.
The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth series:
1. The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
2. The Sensorium of God
3. The Day Without Yesterday
To download a two chapter extract of “The Day without Yesterday” go to…
http://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/8391/The-Day-without-Yesterday-by-Stuart-Clark.html
The Montreal Centre is looking forward to hosting Mr. Clark once again as our featured speaker at our 2013 Townsend Lecture.
