**Title:** How to Design a Universe **Speaker:** Professor Catherine Heymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland. 📍 **Location:** Garnethill Multicultural Centre, 21 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6RE 🕒 **Doors open:** 14.00 Meeting time:\*\* 14.30– 16.00 ☕ **Refreshments:** Complimentary tea and coffee will be available, with an optional donation. 🎟️ **Cost:** Free Join us for our next Glasgow Branch meeting, open to all HSS members, supporters and anyone who shares humanist values! This month's meeting will feature a speaker as well as updates on the society’s recent activities. **Event Description:** Professor Catherine Heymans will deliver a talk based on her book 'How to Design a Universe'. A synopsis of the book: 'In How to Design a Universe, acclaimed astrophysicist Catherine Heymans takes you on a humorous and mind-bending journey through the science of reality itself. From the quantum quirks of subatomic particles to the cosmic mysteries of dark matter and the secrets of the human senses, Heymans explores whether humanity could ever create a virtual universe as rich and diverse as our own - and what that means for our sense of self, free will and consciousness. Blending personal stories, pop culture, cutting-edge technology and ground-breaking experiments, this book makes the biggest questions in science accessible and urgent. How to Design a Universe will change the way you see the world - and your place in it.' **About the Speaker:** Professor Catherine Heymans is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh and Astronomer Royal for Scotland. She is also Director of the German Centre for Cosmological Lensing at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

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