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An interesting (video) lecture by Frank Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=9f6203be-df7b-46da-afcc-357f06ce4429

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"Our present Core Theory of matter (aka “standard model”) was born in the 1970s, a Golden Age for fundamental physics. To date it has passed every experimental test, extending – by many orders of magnitude – to higher energies, shorter distances, and greater precision than were available in the 1970s. Yet we are not satisfied, because the Core Theory postulates four separate interactions and several different kinds of matter, and its equations are lopsided. In this lecture, Prof. Wilczek will describe powerful and extremely beautiful ideas for restoring unity and symmetry to the fundamental laws..."

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Thanks Kate. Historic presentation by a hero of modern physics. Prof. Wilczec, with witty humour and humility, brings the realm of the genius down from the dizzying heights for the benefit of we who are somewhat nearer the top of the bell curve!


"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler

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