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How Weird is the Cosmos?
The Cosmos is weirder that we think. It's so weird that four experts can only sit around and laugh as they outdo each other in trading stories about amazing findings and discoveries.
Participants
 | | Roger Blandford Ph.D.
Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech |
| | David Goodstein Ph.D.
Vice Provost, Caltech, Prof. of Physics & Applied Physics |
| | Alan Guth Ph.D.
Physics, MIT |
| | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D.
Astrophysicist, Director, Hayden Planetarium |
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How Does Order Arise in the Universe?
Get two Nobel laureates, put them in a room, try to shake them up, fail, and
get a lot of visionary thinking about stars, planets, living things, people
- plausible new theories of how all this developed from the maelstrom of the
early universe.
Participants
| | David Baltimore, Ph.D.
Nobel laureate, Medicine , President, Caltech |
| | Murray Gell-Mann , Ph.D.
Nobel laureate, Physics, Co-Chairman, Science Board, Santa Fe Institute |
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Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?
As quantum engineer, Seth Lloyd blithely states, "a quantum computer is to a computer what a laser is to a light bulb. That explains a lot, and nothing."
Participants
| | David DiVincenzo Ph.D.
IBM Senior Researcher |
| | Seth Lloyd Ph.D.
Information Theorist, Professor of Engineering, MIT |
| | K. Birgitta Whaley Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, UC, Berkeley |
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Is the Universe Full of Life?
Humans have long wondered whether life exists beyond our home planet. In recent years, a host of new technologies are turning speculation into science. We now have the ability to discern the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet so distant we can't even see it, to detect the presence of dozens of new planets circling stars similar to our own sun, and have discovered life in environments on Earth so extreme it's not unreasonable to imagine that microbes -- or more-- may flourish elsewhere in the Universe.
Participants
| | Shri Kulkarni Ph.D.
Planetary Astronomer, Caltech |
| | Bruce Murray Ph.D.
Planetary Astronomer/Geologist, Caltech |
| | Neil de Grasse Tyson Ph.D.
Astrophysicist; Director, Hayden Planetarium |
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