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Press conference
Presentation to journalists of the proceedings of the conference

"Eternity between space and time: from consciousness to the cosmos”

Friday, September 6, 11 a.m. General Curia of the Society of Jesus Borgo Santo Spirito 4
Rome

The University of Padua, in the collaboration with the “Specola Vaticana” (Vatican Observatory), investigates eternity toward new scientific perspectives thanks to 24 contributions from some of the world's greatest scholars in different disciplines such as physics, psychology, philosophy and theology: among them Nobel laureates Gerard 't Hooft and Roger Penrose, joined by Federico Faggin, Mauro D'Ariano, Gabriele Veneziano, Massimo Cacciari, Giulio Goggi and Kurt Appel. The ever-present questions about God and consciousness are discussed along with quantum theory, black holes, the inflationary universe, the Big Bang and string theory, considering the contributions of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

The essay, with unpublished insights, is the result of the international conference on the theme of eternity held in May 2022 as part of the Master's program in “Death Studies and End of Life” within the University of Padua, which was attended by the world's leading scholars in the fields of Physics, Philosophy, Theology and Psychology.

Present at the press conference will be the four editors and authors too in the proceedings

Fr. Gabriele Gionti S.J. - Specola Vaticana, Vatican City and Vatican Observatory Research Group, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA; LNF-INFN Frascati; Fabio Scardigli – Milan polytechnic; Leiden University, Netherlands;
Ines Testoni - University of Padua, Italy;
Fr. Andrea Toniolo - Theological Faculty of Triveneto, Padua, Italy.

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