The 2015 Hintze Lecture  delivered by Professor Hitoshi Murayama Where do we come from?   Science is making progress on this age-old  question of humankind. The Universe was once much smaller  than the size of an atom. Small things mattered in the small Universe, where quantum physics dominated the scene.  To understand the way the Universe is today, we have to solve  remaining major puzzles. The Higgs boson that was discovered recently  is holding our body together from evaporating in a nanosecond. But we still do not know what exactly it is. The mysterious dark matter  is holding the galaxy together, and we would not have been born without it.  But nobody has seen it directly. And what is the very beginning of the Universe?

The 2015 Hintze Lecture delivered by Professor Hitoshi Murayama Where do we come from? Science is making progress on this age-old question of humankind. The Universe was once much smaller than the size of an atom. Small things mattered in the small Universe, where quantum physics dominated the scene. To understand the way the Universe is today, we have to solve remaining major puzzles. The Higgs boson that was discovered recently is holding our body together from evaporating in a nanosecond. But we still do not know what exactly it is. The mysterious dark matter is holding the galaxy together, and we would not have been born without it. But nobody has seen it directly. And what is the very beginning of the Universe?

The 2015 Hintze Lecture  delivered by Professor Hitoshi Murayama Where do we come from?   Science is making progress on this age-old  question of humankind. The Universe was once much smaller  than the size of an atom. Small things mattered in the small Universe, where quantum physics dominated the scene.  To understand the way the Universe is today, we have to solve  remaining major puzzles. The Higgs boson that was discovered recently  is holding our body together from evaporating in a nanosecond. But we still do not know what exactly it is. The mysterious dark matter &nbsp;is holding the galaxy together, and we would not have been born without it.  But nobody has seen it directly. And what is the very beginning of the Universe?

The Quantum Universe

The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about the research at Oxford Physics take place throughout the academic year. Looking at topics diverse as the creation of the universe to the science of climate change. 

Features episodes previously published as:
(1) 'Oxford Physics Alumni': "Informal interviews with physics alumni at events, lectures and other alumni related activities."
(2) 'Physics and Philosophy: Arguments, Experiments and a Few Things in Between': "A series which explores some of the links between physics and philosophy, two of the most fundamental ways with which we try to answer our questions about the world around us. A number of the most pertinent topics which bridge the disciplines are discussed - the nature of space and time, the unpredictable results of quantum mechanics and their surprising consequences and perhaps most fundamentally, the nature of the mind and how far science can go towards explaining and understanding it. Featuring interviews with Dr. Christopher Palmer, Prof. Frank Arntzenius, Prof. Vlatko Vedral, Dr. David Wallace and Prof. Roger Penrose."

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The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about the research at Oxford Physics take place throughout the academic year. Looking at topics diverse as the creation of the universe to the science of climate change. Features episodes previously published as: (1) 'Oxford Physics Alumni': "Informal interviews with physics alumni at events, lectures and other alumni related activities." (2) 'Physics and Philosophy: Arguments, Experiments and a Few Things in Between': "A series which explores some of the links between physics and philosophy, two of the most fundamental ways with which we try to answer our questions about the world around us. A number of the most pertinent topics which bridge the disciplines are discussed - the nature of space and time, the unpredictable results of quantum mechanics and their surprising consequences and perhaps most fundamentally, the nature of the mind and how far science can go towards explaining and understanding it. Featuring interviews with Dr. Christopher Palmer, Prof. Frank Arntzenius, Prof. Vlatko Vedral, Dr. David Wallace and Prof. Roger Penrose."

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