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Live-Blog Event: The Astonishing Simplicity Of Everything (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]
“My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can’t understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don’t seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics.” –Neil Turok
The birth of space and time is perhaps the most fundamental question in all of physics, and may be the ultimate key to understanding where “all of this” comes from, including matter, radiation, the laws of nature, the forces, and all of reality. Of course, it might not even have the answer we expect, as space and time themselves may turn out to be eternal, or dynamical, changing quantities.
Image credit: Moonrunner Design, via http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140318-multiverse-inflation-big-bang-science-space/.
One of the more interesting theoretical characters on the scene is the director of Perimeter Institute, Neil Turok. While Neil did some tremendously interesting research for cosmology in the 1980s and 1990s, he’s recently taken on a far more speculative turn, making grand predictions, pronouncements and statements, yet with little evidence to back them up. He’s also giving the inaugural Perimeter Institute public lecture for the 2015-2016 academic year, and I have to keep him honest!
Image credit: Perimeter Institute.
I have no idea what he’ll say, but you won’t want to miss my live-blog (complete with commentary) at 7 PM EDT / 4 PM PDT (or anytime afterwards, if you don’t care about seeing it live) on October 7th over on Medium!
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2015/10/06/live-blog-event-the-astonishing-simplicity-of-everything-synopsis/
