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    LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

    http://www.skeptic.com/upcoming-lect...-heavens-door/

    Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

    • SPECIAL DAY & TIME
      Event Date: Monday, October 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    • Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
    • Speaker: Dr. Lisa Randall
    • Tickets: First come, first served at the door. Seating is limited. $8 for Skeptics Society members and the JPL/Caltech community, $10 for nonmembers. Your admission fee is a donation that pays for our lecture expenses.



    FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, Harvard University physicist and cosmologist Dr. Lisa Randall presents a rousing defense of the role of science in our lives. The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven’s Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science. She examines the role of risk, creativity, uncertainty, beauty, and truth in scientific thinking, along with the nature and goals of the largest machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider, the enormous particle accelerator below the border of France and Switzerland—as well as recent ideas underlying cosmology and current dark matter experiments, and what they tell us about who we are and where we came from.
    [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
    -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]
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    Re: LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

    As a bonus, you may meet me.
    [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
    -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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      Re: LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

      Good stuff. Got some insights into how things are done in physics and what fundamental questions have answers on the horizon.
      [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
      -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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        Re: LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

        Originally posted by Siggie View Post
        Good stuff. Got some insights into how things are done in physics and what fundamental questions have answers on the horizon.
        Can you please share with us some of these questions and answers?
        Hayastan or Bust.

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          Re: LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

          Questions only at this point. She didn't get into a lot of them, but did spend some time on Higgs-Boson which she said will most likely be found in the next year. Quite possibly by end of this year.
          [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
          -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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            Re: LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

            Not familiar with that one..
            Hayastan or Bust.

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              Re: LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

              It's huuuuge!
              [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
              -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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                Re: LA members: Lecture @ CalTech 10/10/11 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics...

                Originally posted by Siggie View Post
                Questions only at this point. She didn't get into a lot of them, but did spend some time on Higgs-Boson which she said will most likely be found in the next year. Quite possibly by end of this year.
                Is this the particle being called " the God" particle?
                Artashes
                HARK

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