{"id":40632,"date":"2019-03-07T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=40632"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:42:24","slug":"now-science-stories-unveil-evolution-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/science-environment\/now-science-stories-unveil-evolution-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Where are we now?&#8217;: Science stories to unveil the evolution of galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW228261319 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228261319 BCX4\">Listeners are taken on a journey to learn about the universe&#8217;s origins through storytelling and science<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 100%\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;padding-top: 0;height: 0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Around 40 adults sat in a room together for two hours pondering over their existence. \u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">No, that was not a social experiment, it was just a really<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0immersive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">session at the Little Man Coffee Company where storyteller Christine Watkins was invited by the Cardiff University\u2019s Science Festival Team to collaborate with two of its physicists and spread some love for learning.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Speaking about the power of storytelling, Christine said, \u201cI think it connects us. It is an intrinsic part of being human, it has always been with us and is a way of connecting and processing and imagining where we are and where we are going and what is the space like where we\u2019re in, and it can work on so many different levels.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40638\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-40638 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/christine-e1551970066635-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40638 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/christine-e1551970066635-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Storyteller Christine Watkins tells mythological stories followed by their scientific counterparts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Every <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">issue<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">raised\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">at the session <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">had an astronomical background and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">was looked at with a\u00a0practical and a story\u2019s point of view.\u00a0<span class=\"TextRun SCXW103976440 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW103976440 BCX4\">The cosy environment at The Little Man and a limited number of people also added to the success of connecting with people.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW103976440 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The session began by making use of mythological stories consisting of talking cows, weaving clouds, and doomed doors, by Christine and moved on to more practical aspects of latitudes, longitudes and the speed of light by Eve North. Both a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">sking<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> the same question &#8211; Where are we now?<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0And answering the question \u2013 How did we reach here?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yashika Narula, a postgraduate from Cardiff School of Architecture said, \u201cI was happy to attend the event. While some of the stories were insightful and caught my attention, I believe there was still a scope for them to be more scientifically aligned.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The other physicist and lecturer, Tim Davies also revealed his theatrical side when he gave an intense lesson using a golden watch to symbolise our existence. Using the golden watch as a metaphor, he demonstrated <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">how it all came to be<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, which was symptomatic to our existence that started with\u00a0the big bang. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40643\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-40643 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/tim-e1551970213956-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40643 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/tim-e1551970213956-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Physicist Tim Davies reveals their wish to conduct a session combining science and stories for a while<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The room went quiet. Everyone was stunned by his comparison of human existence to a mere golden watch. He then continued to talk more about how we came from nothingness and may end into nothingness. The room stayed quiet when he further said that this cycle of existence may not be the first one for the universe.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">When combining two distinct things like science and mythological stories, Christine said, \u201cIt is unusual to us today because we are in a very specialist society that segregates things, but it\u2019s not what the roots of storytelling is, because the root of storytelling can bring together all sorts of data and in my personal preference, I like bringing things together in surprising ways.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cHopefully you reach a different audience in a different way. To get people thinking about it in different terms really gives us a way to reach people however we can.\u201d said Mr. Davies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0when discussing their idea of telling stories to discuss science.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff Science Festival used the power of storytelling to explain how the universe came together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":40633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[685],"class_list":["post-40632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-environment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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