The Warmth Mantle of the Earth: Two Perspectives

A SPECIAL EVENING PRESENTATION BY MATTHIAS RANG AND MEINHARD SIMON, TWO VISITING RESEARCHERS AND LONG-TIME FRIENDS OF THE NATURE INSTITUTE

Meinhard Simon will speak on the evolution of Earth’s warmth mantle as a suitable habitat for human beings, while Matthias Rang will consider the warmth mantle as interiority in the inorganic realm.

Matthias Rang (PhD, University of Wuppertal) studied physics in Freiburg and Berlin before becoming a visiting researcher in the field of nano-optics at the University of Washington, Seattle. At the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, where Rang co-leads the Natural Science Section, he carries out research on optical complementarity and Goethe’s theory of color in relation to physical optics. Some of his research is shown in a color exhibition, which he developed together with Nora Löbe and that has taken place in Stourbridge (United Kingdom), Basel and Dornach (Switzerland), Ytterjarna (Sweden), Berlin (Germany) and Mountain View (CA).

Meinhard Simon is a founding member of the Helmholz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity and Professor Emeritus and former dean of the school of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He studied biology at the Universities of Konstanz and Freiburg, Germany. From 1997 to 2023, he headed the working group Biology of Geological Processes & Aquatic Microbial Ecology at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He has been working for more than 40 years in the field of microbial ecology with an emphasis on marine microorganisms. He has been always interested in a deeper and participatory understanding of microorganisms. Meinhard has been serving for more than 30 years in the advisory board (Sektionskollegium) of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.

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