Name: Did the Big Bang really happen?
Start: 2026-05-28T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-28T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Mexborough Church Hall

$Did the Big Bang really\u00a0happen?$

The person asking that question is Mr John Waterhouse FRAS from Bradford Astronomical Society
About this Event

John Waterhouse, FRAS, poses the question "Did the Big Bang Really Happen?" in astronomy presentations, exploring the evidence supporting the theory that the universe expanded from a hot, dense state roughly 13.8 billion years ago, rather than a single explosion in space.

This hybrid meeting is also available via the Zoom app.

John Waterhouse is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) and a member of the Bradford Astronomical Society. John read Physics at Oxford just after Stephen Hawking but, unlike him, was not very good at it so went into industry and enjoyed a career in business. Having been given an early cosmology book as a school prize - Herman Bondi's "Cosmology" (1961) - I maintained that interest and returned to it in earnest in the last fifteen years. Now my delight is thinking and talking about the Universe and discussing it with fellow enthusiasts