Events Archive | Lowell Series on Physics
The Museum annually hosts dozens of special events featuring everything from astronauts to artists, robots to raptors. See who has joined us over the years for these special offerings; many listings include audio, video, and reference materials.
- Knocking on Heaven's Door (Lecture)
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How do we decide which scientific questions to study? What roles do risk, creativity, uncertainty, beauty, and truth play in scientific thinking? Explore these questions with renowned physicist Lisa Randall, an expert in both particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest) ... (details).
With: Lisa Randall, PhD, Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Lowell Series on Physics.
September 21, 2011
- Physics of the Future (Lecture)
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An elevator to space? Robot surgeons? Contact lenses that give X-ray vision? In his new book Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, Michio Kaku shares a stunning vision of the future, based on interviews with more than 300 of the world's top ... (details).
With: Michio Kaku, PhD, theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and popularizer of science.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Lowell Series on Physics.
March 23, 2011
- The Hidden Reality (Lecture)
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Current research rooted in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and string theory concurs that our universe is actually only one of many "bubbles" in a rapidly growing bath of universes. Hear what physicist Brian Greene has to say about the strange worlds of the "multiverse" in his new book The Hidden Reality: ... (details).
With: Brian Greene, PhD, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and bestselling author; in conversation with Amir D. Aczel, PhD, author of Fermat's Last Theorem and Present at the Creation.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Lowell Series on Physics.
March 02, 2011
