Understanding our physical world.

David Hobby, photographer and teacher, goes to CERN to see how the secrets of the universe are being unlocked. Story at the Strobist.

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I often wonder about how things work and how the workings relate to the things we sense but cannot see. Empirical evidence is always interesting.

First it was Schrodinger starting with one proton, then Maxwell with his light equations, then Time Dilation from Lorentz Transformation – Timespace and then finally Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – our recognition of free will. CHOICE – choose a particle or a wave, but not both.

What of the universe will they uncover next?

~ by tarawalch on March 11, 2009.