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YOUR Independent Community Newspaper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Vol. 5 Edition 5
C-K’s science guy?
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Baute teaches science via video By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Kurtis Baute sits on a bag of wooden dominoes, part of nearly 14,000 of them he cut for a science video he made here in Chatham-Kent detailing the history of the universe.
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For one video, scientist Kurtis Baute made Chatham-Kent the centre of the universe. Over the Christmas holidays, Baute, 28, returned to where he grew up near Jeanette’s Creek to film a video showcasing just how old the universe is, and what major developments have occurred in the close to 14 billion years since the big bang started everything in motion. Baute, who is seeking to turn his passion for making videos into his career path, used dominoes, with each one representing the passage of one million years. He ultimately set up 13,799 of them. What’s more, he made them. Baute, whose parents are Brenda and Dave Baute, needed a huge space to set up all the dominoes. That’s when he turned to them to use their Maizex Seeds warehouse at the
family farm. His 13-minute video has garnered more than 70,000 views on YouTube. But what viewers don’t know is the effort Baute went to making it. Once he had the concept to use the dominoes as a collective metaphor for the passage of time since the big bang took place and the universe came into existence, he had to put the plan into action. The first step was to make all the dominoes. That meant running a lot of wood through a band saw. Baute’s latest video evolved out of a test run to track the history of planet Earth, which he did using 2,000 dominoes at Science World in Vancouver. “They were wonderful. They let me fill the main centre of the place on the day it was closed,” he said. “I wanted to see how many I could get set up in a day. Those were really tall and really hard to set up.”
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