“Where did all this come from? How did it all get started?”
These are the questions that Dr. Nergis Mavalvala asks about the universe. It’s not the meaning-of-life stuff in the traditional sense, but more of how everything around us came to be. These are the questions we all have, but for Dr. Mavalvala, finding the answers is her life’s work. It’s why she became a physicist.
“I began to understand that these questions are mostly answered outside of our planet, outside of our solar system,” she explains. “It really lies in the universe. And that’s how I got interested in astrophysics.”
As dean of MIT’s School of Science, Dr. Mavalvala has
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