Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Sat 07 Oct 2006 03:08 PM PDT
Welcome to “Explore Our Universeâ€, an open invitation to share with Perimeter Institute researchers the excitement of probing some of the deepest mysteries of how our universe works.
This section will be under continual development and we welcome suggestions or comments from all visitors to the site. As a start:
- What We Research at PI is an introduction to some of the most important questions of our time that fire our researchers’ imaginations. It features both a brief and a more in depth article on each of the three areas of research currently conducted at Perimeter: Quantum Gravity, Foundations of Quantum Theory and Quantum Information Theory.
- Our Mysterious Universe is a set of essays focusing on a wide variety of the beautiful and often surprising ways in which nature works. Theoretical physicists are continually discovering that nature is far more subtle than we might at first imagine, forcing us to think in highly interesting new ways about the world around us.
- The Essence of General Relativity, Part I: Einstein’s Rotating Disk Thought Experiment
- Recommended Physics Web Sites
The overall goal of this section is to make the sometimes bizarre and abstract ideas in theoretical physics accessible to as many people as possible. Our collective understanding of the universe is one of human kind’s greatest achievements—one that should be shared and celebrated by all, not just the “expertsâ€.
You will find expositions of some of the amazing things we do know about our universe, but equally importantly, descriptions of what we don’t know—the deep questions that are engaging some of the brightest minds in theoretical physics today. This material is intended to be of interest to students, teachers and indeed anyone wanting a more in depth appreciation for and understanding of the nature of our universe at its most foundational level.
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