The Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Harvard FAS

This seminar will give an overview and introduction to modern physics, astronomy, and cosmology. As with the books: Warped Passages, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Higgs Discovery, and Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, on which it will be loosely based, the seminar will consider important developments in physics today and in the last century. We will consider the revolutionary developments of quantum mechanics and general relativity and will investigate the key concepts which separated these…