What would it look like if a cosmologist tested theories about the universe instead of writing a bestselling non-fiction book of randomly assembled scientific-sounding sentence fragments? (Free title for the next tenured academic who wants to write one: The Elegantly Hidden Massively Parallel Enigmatic Universe, introduction and cautionary scolding about global warming by Neil deGrasse Tyson.)
Join me at MIT tomorrow to find out! Brian Keating (tagline: “that other UC astronomer who is not in the news”) is talking about experimental results. Coffee at 3:30 pm in 4-349 and the actual talk in 10-250 at 4 pm. Details on the Physics Colloquium page. After the talk we can get together and anyone who actually understood it can explain it to the rest of us.