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From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe |
Steve Nadis |
Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:00 PM |
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| The 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson completed the “Standard Model” of particle physics. But where does particle physics go from there? In this talk, I will discuss the history and future of particle physics, focusing on China’s plans to build an accelerator, the so-called “Great Collider,” that could supersede the Large Hadron Collider as the biggest and most complicated machine ever built—and one capable of opening new frontiers in science.
Steve Nadis, a graduate of Hampshire College, is a contributing editor to ASTRONOMY and DISCOVER Magazines. His articles have also appeared in Nature, Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Omni, Popular Science, Sky&Telescope, Air&Space, and other magazines. He was a science journalism fellow at MIT and has worked or consulted for: the Union of Concerned Scientists, the World Resources Institute, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Harvard Physics and Mathematics Departments, and WGBH NOVA.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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