How can we sustain prosperity within planetary boundaries?

Cosmic Clues and Human Questions

January 22, 2026
09:15–09:45 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

What can the universe’s most elusive phenomena – dark matter, supermassive black holes and cosmic acceleration – teach us about the limits of human knowledge and perception? Explores how cutting-edge astrophysics not only maps the invisible structures of the cosmos but also challenges our understanding of reality, agency and the nature of discovery itself.

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Speakers

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Priyamvada Natarajan
Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics
Yale University
MT
Max Tegmark
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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