Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, mostly on Physics and Astronomy. The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question. The lectures are aimed at a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.
Author(s): B.G. Sidharth
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 207
Cover......Page 1
A Century of Ideas......Page 2
Fundamental Theories of Physics Volume 149......Page 3
Copyright......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 11
Fifty Years of Cosmology......Page 12
Science as an Adventure......Page 24
The Early Universe......Page 30
The Long-Term Future of Particle Accelerators......Page 37
Energy and Evolution......Page 52
The Wonders of Pulsars......Page 63
Is the Future Given? Changes in Our Description of Nature......Page 73
Bubbles, Foams and Other Fragile Objects......Page 84
Beyond the Standard Model: Will it be the Theory of Everything?......Page 93
Living Joyfully with Complexity in Chemistry and Culture......Page 107
A Confrontation with Infinity......Page 115
The Creative and Unpredictable Interaction of Science and Technology......Page 128
The Link Between Neutrino Masses and Proton Decay in Supersymmetric Unification......Page 143
The Nature of Discovery in Physics......Page 179
Symmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner......Page 208
