Glossary
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Three Natures in the ISOLDE hand
Three Natures in the ISOLDE hand The radioactive beam facility at CERN, ISOLDE(1) has pioneered many achievements both at the level of designing new devices and of producing frontier Physics. These demarches have been crowned by a series of papers in Nature and Nature communication published within a month. BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url…
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Workshop: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck
Workshop: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck Over the next two weeks, the Theory Unit will host a workshop in "Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck" from 17 to 28 June. During the workshop implications of the first cosmology results from Planck will be discussed following the first cosmological data release. The list of speakers…
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Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory
Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory Superstring Theory is mathematically equivalent to a completely deterministic automaton,yet the world it describes appears to be quantum mechanical. In his seminar, Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University) discussed how can we reconcile these apparently conflicting observations, and invited us to think "What would John Bell have to say about…