A theoretical cosmologist explores the right to wonder upon the night sky
In her new book, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein writes her love letter to the universe and asks readers to confront the ways that some people have been denied the opportunity to gaze upon the cosmos in wonder.
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Posted: Mar 26, 2021 4:44 PM ET | Last Updated: March 26
In her new book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores our fundamental right to wonder upon the night sky.(Chanda Prescod-Weinstein)
Quirks and Quarks17:08A theoretical cosmologist explores the right to wonder upon the night sky
Theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein studies exotic cosmological puzzles like dark matter and neutron stars. But as one of the few Black women to have earned a PhD in physics, she never loses sight of how much harder she and others like her have had to fight to be able to engage in that work.