"As a child, every night, before going to sleep, I tried to imagine infinity" : a comic book about an astronomical journey by David Elbaz
David Elbaz is an astrophysicist, director of research at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA Saclay), where he directs the “Cosmology and evolution of galaxies” laboratory. He is also an advisor to the European Space Agency. Tuesday November 26, he presents to us Alma – Journey of an astronomer to Inca land, with Mathieu Fauré on the drawings, an initiatory journey into comics, published by Alisio Sciences.
Alma is the largest astronomical observatory in the world, located in the heart of the Atacama Desert, the driest desert, resembling the planet Mars. Comics is at the intersection of astrophysics and ancestral Indian culture threatened with extinction.
franceinfo: You start this work by writing: “There is no chance, there are only encounters“. What do you mean ?
David Elbaz: So it’s true, I went to the Atacama desert, I met these Indians, a shaman, an Indian community leader, and he told me: “There is no chance, there are only encounters“. He added a sentence that struck me and that I didn’t understand at all at the time: “here there is nothing and at the same time there is everything“. And then it stayed in my head until I realized that in their basement, there is the future of the planet because there is lithium which is used to make batteries for electric cars to save the planet.
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