Prof Richard Bower at The World Machine, Lumiere 2015
Durham University is one of the world's leading centres for research into the origins and evolution of the Universe. Cosmologists working on the EAGLE Project use a huge supercomputer to create remarkably lifelike simulations of the Universe which are then compared to the real thing by astronomers through their telescopes to further our understanding of the Universe and to learn how it evolved to become what we see today. The work of EAGLE is behind three of the installations at Lumiere 2017 - What Matters, Cosmoscope and Cosmic Architecture, which visitors will see projected on to the award-winning Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. Professor Richard Bower , of Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology , explains more. Tell us about your work. My job is to make universes - which is not a bad job at all! We take the laws of physics, and programme that into the supercomputer along with a few other ingredients such as those needed to form stars. We then see if we can create a Universe that looks like the one we see through telescopes.
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