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Displaying all lectures given by: Frank Wilczek


Anticipating A New Golden Age
Speaker(s): Frank Wilczek
Abstract: Our present Core Theory of matter (aka “standard model”) was born in the 1970s, a Golden Age for fundamental physics. To date it has passed every experimental test, extending – by many orders of magnitude – to higher energies, shorter distances, and greater precision than were available in t... read more
Date: 05/11/2008 - 7:00 pm

A Night with Nobel - The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity
Speaker(s): Frank Wilczek
Abstract: Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 asserts that energy and mass are different aspects of the same reality. It is usually associated with the idea that small amounts of mass can be converted into large amounts of energy. For fundamental physics, however, the more important idea is just the opposite. Re... read more
Date: 06/06/2006 - 7:00 pm
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