Carlson Lecture
Special Lecture: Tim Palmer, Univ. Oxford, UK
| Date |
Time |
Location |
| October 31st, 2012 |
10:00am-11:00am |
MIT, 54-915 |
Lorenz, Goedel and Penrose: From chaos to fundamental physics.
"In the final part of this trilogy of talks, I will return to my PhD routes (in general relativity and quantum gravity) and discuss how the type of measure-zero fractal state-space geometry introduced to science by Ed Lorenz, may help solve two of the most intractable problems in theoretical physics: the meaning of the superposed state in quantum theory, and the route to unification of the gravitational force with the electromagnetic and nuclear forces. The talk will be mostly non-technical, but will refer to a recent paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3940 where full technical details can be found."
Contact: Kristen Barilaro (fisher@mit.edu)