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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190924T170000
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URL:https://sciences.brussels/agenda/the-inaugural-lecture-of-the-2019-jac
 ques-solvay-international-chair-in-physics/
SUMMARY:The Inaugural Lecture of the ‘2019 Jacques Solvay International C
 hair in Physics’
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nProfessor Gary Gibbons\nDA
 MTP\, University of Cambridge\, UK[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSpace
 \, Time and Symmetry\nAfter one hundred years of tests and observations\, 
 Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity remains our most fundamental acc
 ount of the nature of gravity. Together with the Standard Model of Particl
 e Physics\, it is the basis for all of our current understanding of the wo
 rkings of the physical world from microscopic to cosmological scales.\n\n&
 nbsp\;\n\nIn this lecture\, directed to a general audience\, I will descri
 be the historical process whereby starting from the achievements of Copern
 icus\, Galileo and Newton\, Einstein was drawn to attribute physical reali
 ty to a unification of space and time called Spacetime\, and ascribe the f
 orce of gravity to the curvature of spacetime. It will be explained that t
 he issue ultimately boils down to the symmetry\, that is invariance\, of a
 ll physical laws\, such as those governing the propagation of light under 
 changes of reference frame.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nIn doing so\, there results a th
 eory which incorporates in a mathematically consistent fashion some of the
  most daring and imaginative insights and speculations on light bending\, 
 black holes\, non-Euclidean geometry\, expanding universes and travelling 
 back in time\, and which continues to fascinate to this day.[/vc_column_te
 xt][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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CATEGORIES:Chercheurs,Enseignants,Passionnés
LOCATION:ULB Campus de la Plaine - Salle Solvay\, Campus de la Plaine - Bâ
 timent NO - Niveau 5\, Bruxelles\, 1050\, Belgique
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