FILM FEST: DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 1

ROOM 302 (FILM FEST)

Thursday July 12, 2018 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm


"LIGO Detection" (20mins) On September 14, 2015 the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington measured ripples in the fabric of spacetime – gravitational waves – generated by the merger of two massive black holes over one billion light years from Earth. 'Wisdom Teeth" (11mins) Wisdom Teeth is a film about Danish scientist Nicolas Steno(1638-1686) and his investigation concerning the Glossopetrae, a fossilized shark whose teeth are commonly found on the italian landscapes."