Bhaktivedanta Institute’s 50 Year Celebration
I’m honored by a kind invitation to give a keynote Cosmology Lecture for Bhaktivedanta Institute’s Golden Jubilee in Kolkata India taking place March 16-22, 2026.
The Institute’s theme is “Where Science and Spirituality Meet”
My presentation is entitled “Bubbles and Voids versus Fancies – Oh My !
It will cover how Unlimited Inspiration must be Tempered by Carefully Limited Hypotheses & Calm Logic,
Logical Fallibilism – meaning My Claims could be Wrong, and illuminate the pros and cons of leading Cosmology Models and Theories.
You are guaranteed to learn a surprise or two.
My lecture begins March 20 at 10:30 pm PST (slightly late night here, but early for India). You can pose questions for me at the 45 minute mark.
You can listen to the entire conference online for free. You just have to register.
What makes this a rather special treat for me is how so many Nobel Prize winners have given talks for this institute including Dr. Linus Pauling (a Big Sur Neighbor), Sir Roger Penrose, Prof. Werner Arber, Prof. Charles H. Townes, Prof. Alan MacDiarmid, Prof. William D. Phillips, Prof. Paul Lauterbur, Prof. Ahmed Zewail, and Prof. George Wald.
Veil Nebula
Not to mention, our March program is overflowing with many of Cosmology’s most prominent names and researchers: Louis Marmet (Redshift), Sandra Faber (Great Attractor), George Ellis, Tim Eastman (NASA & Plasma), Paul Steinhardt (Cyclic Universe), Wendy Freedman (Hubble distance measurements), and many more.
What’s fascinating to me is how none of the speakers are fierce defenders of Big Bang. So maybe my 2008 prediction is sloooowly coming true – that Big Bang will soon collapse like a House of Cards.
