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SUMMARY:The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin
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CONTACT:Hamish Gordon
DESCRIPTION:A seminal discussion on whether physics - the basis for all ot
 her science - is in danger of losing its way.\n\nLEE SMOLIN\, a theoretica
 l physicist\, is a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter
  Institute in Waterloo Canada. He is the critically acclaimed author of Th
 e Life of the Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity.\n\nThe last three
  decades have seen little definitive progress in the search for a complete
  unification of the laws of physics. The imaginations of scientists and th
 e public alike have been excited by novel proposals for new laws based on 
 string theory\, the existence of other\, unseen dimensions\, and multiple 
 universes. But none of these have succeeded in doing what any scientific t
 heory must do to become part of the truth\, which is to make precise predi
 ctions that could be checked by experiment. Instead\, theorists seem to be
  in danger of splitting into specialized communities that talk only to oth
 ers who agree with them. Pioneering theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argue
 s that even the smartest and best-intentioned scientists can lose their wa
 y without the discipline of having to convince skeptics. 
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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