This will be a trip to universe. It will be a trip for everyone: no prior knowledge of Physics is required, and the mathematical concepts we will use will be familiar to any traveler who has finished the first year of high school.
It will be a journey of search: what will interest us most is not the answers themselves, but how we arrive at those answers. How do we know what we know about the universe? And how will we discover what we do not yet know? Our first attitude it will be our cosmic neighborhood, the Solar System.
Our purpose will be to get to know our home, Earth, as part of our own corner of the universe. We will talk about the sky as we see it from planet Earth. For the brightest bodies in the sky, the Helium and the Moon. For the fascinating history of the discovery of the laws of nature governing the motions of the heavenly bodies, which is also the history of the beginning of the science of Physics.
For the friendly star of our neighborhood, the Sun, which provides us with all the energy that sustains life on Earth and our culture, burning itself with thermonuclear reactions. For the planets, other worlds so different from Earth, and so different from each other. For the great exploration, the journey of the machines made by mankind to the ends of the Solar System, and beyond.
Have a good trip.
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