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Following In The Footsteps: Searching For The Next Miracle
Howard Burton , John Stachel , Artur Ekert - University of Oxford
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Faster than the Speed of Light: Could the Laws of Physics Change?
Joao Magueijo - Imperial College London
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Bistro Banter -- Humanitarian and Physicist: Exploring the Man and the Scientist
Howard Burton , David Rowe - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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Einstein\'s Political Priorities: World Government
David Rowe - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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Einstein Recovers Judaism and Discovers Politics
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From Romanticism to Modernism: Music in Einstein\'s World
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Strange Views of Space and Time: From Einstein to String Theory
PIRSA:05110007In honour of the hundredth anniversary of Einstein\'s \'miraculous year\', I will describe the modern view of space and time. I will start with special relativity, then describe how space and time are modified in Einstein\'s general theory of relativity, and end with recent ideas coming out of… -
Quanta, Ciphers and Computers
Artur Ekert - University of Oxford
PIRSA:05100036Artur Ekert, quanta, cipher, computers, secure communication, cryptography, permutations, substitution, quantum, spooky action, entanglement, Schrodinger, quantum theory -
Following In The Footsteps: Searching For The Next Miracle
Howard Burton , John Stachel , Artur Ekert - University of Oxford
PIRSA:05100035Howard Burton, John Stachel, Artur Ekert, Gary Horowitz, unifying, quantum field theory, superstring theory, unification, symmetry of nature, electromagnetism, gravity, Einstein, quantum, many worlds, quantum mechanics, Higgs particle,supersymmetry, quantum computers -
Meet the \'Other\' Einstein
PIRSA:05100034It is well known that Einstein worked to develop a unified field theory that would encompass all of physics including (he hoped) all quantum phenomena. It is not so well known that there was \'another Einstein,\' who from 1916 on was skeptical about the continuum as a foundational element in physics… -
Faster than the Speed of Light: Could the Laws of Physics Change?
Joao Magueijo - Imperial College London
PIRSA:05100033Could the laws of physics change? The laws of physics are usually meant to be set in stone; variability is not usually part of physics. Yet contradicting Einstein\'s tenet of the constancy of the speed of light raises nothing less than that possibility. I will discuss some of the more dramatic… -
First Principles - Building an Einstein Factory
PIRSA:05100032Howard Burton, the Executive Director and chief architect of Perimeter Institute, describes the process and pitfalls of constructing a home for budding Einsteins from scratch in Waterloo. Einstein factory, Howard Burton, Perimeter Institute, Einstein, sociological factors, Mike Lazardis, IAS… -
Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
PIRSA:05100031The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, went through their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances: Einstein\'s special theory of relativity and Picasso\'s Les Demoiselles d\'Avignon. It turns out they… -
Bistro Banter -- Humanitarian and Physicist: Exploring the Man and the Scientist
Howard Burton , David Rowe - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
PIRSA:05100030Robert Schulmann, Howard Burton, John Dawson, Einstein, moral engagement, Godel, causality, Jewish, anti-Semitism, philosophy, religion, humanitarian, -
Einstein\'s Political Priorities: World Government
David Rowe - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
PIRSA:05100029Although Einstein emerged as a leading spokesman for pacifism in 1930, his political views already underwent a major shift even before Hitler came to power in January 1933. Disappointment with negotiations at the 1932 Disarmament Conference in Geneva led him to the conclusion that the only hope of… -
Companion Stars: Einstein and Gödel at the Institute for Advanced Study
PIRSA:05100028Two of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel, were colleagues in Princeton during the years 1940-55. This talk will explore the contrasting personalities, revolutionary results, consonant world views, and confluent interests in the nature of time that… -
Einstein Recovers Judaism and Discovers Politics
PIRSA:05100027Before 1919 Einsteins political and social interests lay fallow, their moral roots unarticulated. This talk argues that it was his search for Jewish identity as a forty-year old in the years after World War I, as well as his growing commitment to Zionism, that laid the foundation for his active… -
From Romanticism to Modernism: Music in Einstein\'s World
PIRSA:05100026This talk will examine the critical period in European concert music in the years around 1900, when the first generation of modernists--including Schoenberg, Mahler, Bartok, Debussy, and Stravinsky--were forging new musical languages. These composers were not revolutionaries. All remained deeply…