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Physics Home Research Courses Undergraduate Program Graduate Program People Alumni & Friends News & Events Saturday Morning Physics Physics News Archived News Get Involved! (pre-college programs) Special Lectures Department Publications Seminars & Colloquia Department Information Site Map   Physics Colloquium Ta-You Wu Lecture: The Universe is a Strange Place Date: 10/22/2008; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Location: 1324 East Hall Host Department: Physics Reception at 3:30 pm in East Hall South Atrium Speaker: Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Detailed Information Over the course of the twentieth century we have constructed a very successful fundamental theory of the behavior of matter. Viewed from this perspective, the world looks very different from our everyday reality. It is a very strange place, and a beautiful one -- in particular, we've come to understand that the building blocks of matter appear as notes in a Music of the Void. He'll describe this using a combination of facts, pictures, and jokes. Finally he'll discuss some recent discoveries indicating that the world is even stranger than we've understood so far, and how we're rising to the challenge. Contact Information Click here for more information about the lecture. Click here to view the Physics Colloquium schedule.

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