Perimeter Lecture: "The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything"
by Jon Butterworth from on (#PB8Q)
A new series of Perimeter Public Lectures starts with a word from the boss, on a "very powerful clue" that he says may spark a new scientific revolution
The Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is one of the world's leading centres for theoretical physics. They run a monthly public lecture series, and I featured the lectures here from April (when I did one) until the start of the summer break. The links to those are below.
The series restarts on 7 Oct, with a talk from the cosmologist Neil Turok, Director of the institute. The pre-talk blurb (or "abstract" as we academics call it) says:
