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Why We Explore

Prof. Dr. Robert Myers, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2023. Humanity faces real and present problems. Our ressources to address these problems are limited. It's easy to think, then, that we should devote ourselves to our most promising solutions. It's easy, but it's wrong. The great paradox of scientific research is that pure exploration - research into deep questions...
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Where do we come from? Perspective from Physics

Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Murayama, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2022. It has been a millennia-long question by the human beings, traditionally in the context of religions, philosophy, literature, and art. In recent decades, physics made strides to come up with partial answers to this question. Chemical elements we are made of came from exploding stars, as observed by neutrinos and gravitational...
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Imaging Fundamental Processes (Thought, experiment and the accessible universe)

Prof. Dr. George Sterman, Stony Brook University, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2018 The contemporary theory of fundamental forces can be pictured as just a handful of particle species, acting among themselves according to a few simple rules. This theory can in principle account for the richness of the visible universe. It results from a centuries-long process of speculation and...
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The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

Prof. Dr. Nathan Seiberg, IAS Princeton, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2016
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Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?

Prof. Dr. Alan Guth, MIT, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2017
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Probing the Edges of the Universe: Black Holes, Horizons and Strings

Prof. Dr. Andrew Strominger, Havard University, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2019 The visible universe has edges, known as horizons, which surround black holes and other inaccessible spacetime regions. They are governed by a universal but still-mysterious set of laws discovered a half century ago by Stephen Hawking. These laws tell us that black holes are paradoxically both the...
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Mistakes on the way to a good idea: Peccei-Quinn Symmetry. A tribute to Roberto Peccei

Prof. Dr. Helen Quinn, SLAC, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2020 I will talk about the development of the idea now known as Peccei Quinn symmetry, and its consequences. I will use this work that I did together with Roberto Peccei to illustrate key features of how science progresses. While the problem we were addressing, and the answer we found for it are quite technical, this will...
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Cosmology and astrophysics into the next decade

Prof. Matias Zaldarriaga, IAS Princeton, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2021 Over the past decades we have seen remarkable improvements in our understanding of the Cosmos. We have been able to determine the composition of the Universe, its age and expansion history with outstanding precision. We have gathered very interesting clues about the initial conditions of the hot Big Bang and...
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What lies beyond?

Prof. Dr. John Ellis, King´s College London/CERN, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2015
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Gauge/Gravity Duality and the Road to Unification

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Polchinski, University of California (Santa Barbara), Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2010
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Dark Matters

Prof. Joseph Silk, University of Oxford, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2009
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The Origin of Matter

Prof. Dr. Tsutomu T. Yanagida, IPMU (Tokyo), Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2011
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Probing the deep structure of matter

Prof. Dr. Bryan Webber, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, England, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2012
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Quest for Unification

Professor Edward Witten, IAS Princeton, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2002 A hundred years ago, Heinrich Hertz could proof experimentally that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of one single force - electromagnetism. According to our present knowledge, four fundamental forces altogether determine all the phenomena in nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and the weak...
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Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics

Professor Gerard 't Hooft, Universiteit Utrecht, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2003 Arguments from quantum field theory, thermodynamics and superstring physics indicate that black holes have got a well defined quantum structure. The quantum mechanical states are characterized by observables distributed uniformly over the horizon of the black holes. Deep and fundamental problems...
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Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos

Professor Michael S. Turner, National Science Foundation NSF, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2004 Today, cosmologists and particle physicists are asking many questions of the same questions, but for different reasons. Cosmologists want to understand the origin, evolution and destiny of the Universe and particle physicists want to understand the fundamental laws that govern it. Among...
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m = E/c2 : The Origin of Mass

Professor Frank Wilczek, MIT, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2005 Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2, asserts that energy and mass are different aspects of the same reality. In the mind of the general public, it is usually associated with the idea the small amounts of mass can be converted into large amounts of energy, as in nuclear reactors. For fundamental physics, however, the...
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The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

Prof. Dr. Leonard Susskind, Stanford University, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2006
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QCD, Strings und Schwarze Loecher: Ein Wechselspiel von Eichtheorie und Gravitation

Prof. Dr. Juan Martin Maldacena, Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2007
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Space, Time and Matter

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Veneziano, CERN & Collège de France, Paris, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2008
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Universe or Multiverse?

Prof. Dr. Andrei Linde, Stanford University, Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2014
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The String Magic

Prof. Dr. Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Heinrich Hertz Lecture 2013
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Why We Explore

Where do we come from? Perspective from Physics

Imaging Fundamental Processes (Thought, experiment and the accessible universe)

The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?

Probing the Edges of the Universe: Black Holes, Horizons and Strings

Mistakes on the way to a good idea: Peccei-Quinn Symmetry. A tribute to Roberto Peccei

Cosmology and astrophysics into the next decade

What lies beyond?

Gauge/Gravity Duality and the Road to Unification

Dark Matters

The Origin of Matter

Probing the deep structure of matter

Quest for Unification

Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics

Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos

m = E/c2 : The Origin of Mass

The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

QCD, Strings und Schwarze Loecher: Ein Wechselspiel von Eichtheorie und Gravitation

Space, Time and Matter

Universe or Multiverse?

The String Magic

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Why We Explore

Where do we come from? Perspective from Physics

Imaging Fundamental Processes (Thought, experiment and the accessible universe)

The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?

Probing the Edges of the Universe: Black Holes, Horizons and Strings

Mistakes on the way to a good idea: Peccei-Quinn Symmetry. A tribute to Roberto Peccei

Cosmology and astrophysics into the next decade

What lies beyond?

Gauge/Gravity Duality and the Road to Unification

Dark Matters

The Origin of Matter

Probing the deep structure of matter

Quest for Unification

Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics

Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos

m = E/c2 : The Origin of Mass

The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

QCD, Strings und Schwarze Loecher: Ein Wechselspiel von Eichtheorie und Gravitation

Space, Time and Matter

Universe or Multiverse?

The String Magic