2008 Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau
Nature Video presents five short films on the future of physics. Recorded at the 2008 Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, these films capture the conversations between young researchers and physics Laureates George Smoot, William Phillips, John Hall, David Gross and Gerardus 't Hooft. Join them as they grapple with universal ideas including dark matter, dark energy, the Large Hadron Collider, space-time and quantum computing.
- Read Nature Physics' report on the 2008 Lindau Meeting
- For an overview of all episodes, there is still a chance to view the preview trailer, first broadcast Sept 19 2008. Just click on the link in the flash player below.
Episode Summaries
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3 Oct Dark Matter, Dark Energy
Smoot's Nobel Prize was awarded for his analysis of that whisper from the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation. Today he hopes CERN's data will again transform our understanding of the universe. Young scientists Bilge Demirkoz and Benjamin Joachimi question him about how Dark Matter and Dark Energy fit into this picture. - 2
9 Oct The Quantum Lattice
Awarded a Nobel Prize for using lasers to control and cool atoms, producing the Bose-Einstein condensation, Bill Phillips is eager to hear about new theories from young scientists like Hannah Venzl. An exciting dialogue develops between them on a boat trip on Lake Constance as they dream up new collaborative experiments in the quantum world. - 3
16 Oct Fibre and Sunlight
Fine tuning the frequencies of light gave John Hall a Nobel Prize, and helped transform the fields of precision measurement and information transmission. Iris Choi and Andrei Ghicov are young scientists excited by the ways physics can change our world. Hall, now in his seventh decade, inspires them with his own excited enthusiasm for practical science. - 4
23 Oct Abolishing Time?
David Gross's Nobel Prize was for work on the 'strong' force which acts between quarks inside the atom. Now he works on string theory, hoping to understand how all the forces of nature could be united. He believes the next steps may involve throwing out all our ideas about both space and time. But he makes young theoretician Itzhak Fouxon, who shares these views, work hard to justify them. - 5
30 Oct Strings and Particles
Gerardus 't Hooft's Nobel Prize was for 'elucidating the quantum structures of electro-weak interactions'. In this film he meets cosmologist, Benoit Famaey, and theorists Vincenzo Calo and Kristen Koopmans. He tells them that the world of science is littered with wrong ideas, but as young scientists they must not be frightened to publish theirs wherever they may lead.
Missions in Space-Time
The five parts will be released, one a week, on iTunes and nature.com starting on 3 October 2008.
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