The Twincities Creation Science Association, TSCA, sent me the following
email. I'm planning on attending if any of you have questions about
theoretical physics.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wednesday, March 5th 2008 Univ. of Minn
VAN VLECK PUBLIC LECTURE - 4:00 pm - 150 Physics Bldg
Speaker: David Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB
Subject: The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
I review the present state of knowledge in elementary particle
physics and the questions that we are currently addressing. I
discuss the experimental revolutions that might occur at the Large
Hadron Collider, soon to be finished at CERN. I shall also review
the state of string theory. The necessity to go beyond the standard
model of particle physics and to understand quantum gravity has led
to this ambitious attempt to unify all the forces of nature and all
forms of matter as different vibrations of a string-like object. But
string theory is still in a pre-revolutionary stage.Although
remarkable progress has been achieved in the last decade in
understanding the perturbative and non-perturbative structure of
string theory, we still lack a fundamental understanding of the
theory. Many string theorists suspect that a profound conceptual
change in our concept of space and time will be required for the
final formulation of string theory.
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