[Mitworld] New: Frank Wilczek: The Universe is a Strange Place

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MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 4 | number 20 | March 24, 2005
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The Universe is a Strange Place

In the final lecture from the Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture series,
Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics explains the strangeness
of the universe--and how it is "stranger than I thought" in a discussion
on quarks, neutrons, gluons, the strong interaction, ordinary matter and
dark matter. In doing so he recites his sonnet _Virtual Particles_,
plays with equations, shares the experience winning the Nobel Prize, and
tells Einstein's favorite joke.

Speaker:
Frank Wilczek:
	Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/253/>


EVENT HOST: Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture Series
<http://web.mit.edu/nobel-lectures/>


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IN THE PIPELINE:

Department of Urban Studies
Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies
Humphrey Evening Lecture Series "Myths about America"

Howard Zinn
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"THE MYTH OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM"

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