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\f0\fs24 \cf0 >> JOANNE: A new plan tear yum
show at the science center begins this Saturday,
it's called "black holes, the other side of
infinite" and the other side "black holes,
space warps and time twists" joining me are
Mary Dussault and Dr.\'a0Jeffrey Kirsch the
executive director of the Rubeh H. Fleet science
center.\
Mary reminus why black holes have remained
a mystery and what they can tell us about
space.\
>>> I think black holes remain mysteries,
they were an object that was predicted by
Einstein's theory of relativity and gravity
long before they were known to exist in nature
and, in fact, now astronomers are finding
them everywhere in our galaxy and galaxies
beyond.\
I think they can teach us a lot because they're
extreme objects and as the title of the exhibition
says they do warp space and twist time.\
>> JOANNE: And Dr.\'a0Kirsch, something particular
about this show you have new equipment?\
>> Yes this is the first completely digital
plan tear yum show that we will be able to
show because we have never had a projection
system that was capable of operating at high
resolution which we're doing now.\
It's essential four times HD.\
>> JOANNE: How will the experience be different
than for somebody who goes to see this?\
How will it feel or look different?\
>> Well it will look different in a number
of ways, first it's so bright that the stars
will appear right away, usually in a plantarium
you have to wait until it's dark, and the
ability to show a full dome show means it's
going to engulf you much more than the standard
IMAX which we are operating, still, at the
fleet.\
This gives you a totally different way of
appreciating particularly geometric objects
and things that have enormous size or very
small size and in this case we're talking
about the universe, galaxies and black holes,
how could you possibly get a feeling for it?\
Well, it's the goal of the plantitarium to
give you that feeling, because that's what
excites people and scientists.\
These things are so different and imposing
that you're able to see that this is truly
revolution in physics that has emerged in
the last century and the new century is going
to be bigger and better.\
>> JOANNE: Mary, do you think by having this
experience people will feel less intimidated
by the subject, when you can experience it
in this way?\
Because black holes, it canning overwhelming,
the topic.\
>>> I think the two separate experiences are
complement ary, the theater show and the exhibition
in which you get to take control of your own
learning and in that exhibition we try to
place the museum visitor as a black hole explorer
so you don't have to be an expert, you're
expected to be an explorer and to be curious
and the exhibition has activities and exploration
stations where you can examine evidence, see
models of how black holes behave.\
I think that aspect of the exhibition makes
it accessible and then when you go in the
exhibit, the way you become a black holes
explorer is by creating an ID card, you choose
a nickname, mine is Galactic seeker and you
have choices of names and you get a laser,
bar coded card which you use and you collect
your digital discoveries, so you can collect
an image that you liked at an exhibition,
an x ray telescope image of a black hole or
make your own voice recording of a conclusion
that you made about what black holes are like
and all those digital artifacts that you collect
in the exhibition, your own voice, there is
a station where you can take a video of yourself\'a0
\
>> JOANNE: It's interactive, isn't it?\
We don't have a lot of time left but we want
people to get more information because it
starts this weekend, doesn't it?\
>> It does, both shows begin Saturday.\
>>> The show opens this Saturday, there will
be two shows daily and sometimes three and
also the exhibt, we have been cheating a bit
because it was so well designed that it went
in earlier than we anticipated so we have
been getting our staff accustomed to it as
well as the visitors and the reviews are that
it's a powerful combination.\
>> JOANNE: We will let the people at home
know they can go to our web site www.kpbs.org/news/evening
edition where we have links to both your web
sites, thank you for being here.\
>>> Thank you.\
>>> Our pleasure.\
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