DPF 2011

Session

Public lecture: The Frontier of Physics and Beyond

Aug 12, 2011, 6:00 PM

Rhode Island Convention Center

551. The Frontier of Physics and Beyond

Harrison Prosper (Florida State University)

8/12/11, 6:00 PM

Plenary contribution

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland, is the largest scientific instrument ever built. It may alter our perception of the basic laws of Nature. In this talk, I describe why we think, hope, the Large Hadron Collider will tell us something decisive about the frontier of physics and beyond. Potential discoveries may include new forces of nature, new dimensions of space and time, or new...