BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Great Rift in Physics: Tension Between Relativity and Quantum 
 Theory
DTSTART:20250519T130000Z
DTEND:20250519T143000Z
DTSTAMP:20260310T030300Z
UID:indico-event-1371@indico.dfa.unipd.it
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tim Maudlin (New York University (NYU))\n\nPresent-d
 ay physics rests on two pillars: quantum theory—which is used to account
  to all the known physical forces save gravity—and General Relativity—
 which is our presently best theory of gravitational phenomena. But there h
 ave been severe difficulties trying to merge these theories\, or to see th
 em as both consequences of some single coherent fundamental theory. These 
 difficulties manifest in different ways. Some of them concern the sorts of
  mathematical resources used in framing each of the theories individually.
  But some can be appreciated much more directly in a physical way. In shor
 t\, Special and General Relativity were designed to provide a space-time f
 ramework for understanding local physics while quantum theory predicts p
 henomena that John Bell proved cannot be accounted for by any sort of loca
 l physics. I will give a quick overview of the sort of space-time structur
 e postulated by Newton (and everyday folk)\, then the changes to that stru
 cture introduced by Einstein\, and finally Bell’s Theorem and how it bea
 rs of the issue of the fundamental structure of time.\n\nhttps://indico.df
 a.unipd.it/event/1371/
LOCATION:1/1-1 - Aula "A. Rostagni" (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia -
  Edificio Marzolo)
URL:https://indico.dfa.unipd.it/event/1371/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR