Roberto D.D. Costa
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Roberto D.D. Costa
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Departamento de Astronomia
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas
Universidade de São Paulo
Rua do Matão 1226 - Cidade Universitária
05508-090 , São Paulo/SP, Brasil
roberto . costa @ iag.usp.br
Tel:+55-11-3091-2799
I'm an astrophysicist. OK, sometimes it sounds like science-fiction, but it is my job. Why did I choose this profession? What is the goal of astrophysics? Read the poem below, written decades ago, and you will understand.
La noche nos impone su tarea mágica
Destejer el Universo
Las ramificaciones infinitas de efectos y de causas
Que se pierden en ese vértigo sin fondo
El tiempo
Night sets on us its magic task:
To ravel out the world,
The endless branchings of cause and effect,
Which lose themselves in time's unfathomed vertigo.
Jorge Luis Borges