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SUMMARY:Incomprehensible Comprehensibility of the Universe - Prof. Rev. Mi
 chal Heller\, Templeton Prize Laureate
DTSTART:20130129T200000Z
DTEND:20130129T211500Z
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CONTACT:Mareike Herzog
DESCRIPTION:Come to enjoy this interesting talk and join us for a wine rec
 eption afterwards. The talk is FREE for members and 2£ for non-members.\n
 \n---------------\n\nTempleton Prize Laureate's talk on "Incomprehensible 
 Comprehensibility of the Universe" is a comment on Einstein's saying: ‘O
 ne may say that the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility
 ’.\n\n---------------\n\nIn 1915\, after a period of struggle\, Einstein
  finally wrote down his gravitational field equations. Later on\, he himse
 lf\, and other physicists and mathematicians as well\, found a host of sol
 utions to these equations. Some of them represent rotating stars\, gravita
 tional waves\, black holes\, cosmic strings… Around 1915 nobody would ev
 en have suspected the existence of such objects. Now many of them have bee
 n discovered in the universe\, and our confidence in Einstein’s equation
 s has grown so much that we are sure that the process will go on. ‘The e
 quations seem wiser that those who invented them’. Why? Is the universe 
 really mathematical? What is the relationship between mathematics and the 
 laws of physics? As science progresses these questions become even more pr
 essing.
LOCATION:Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre
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