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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
SUMMARY:Life after Lorentz: Quantum Mechanics\, Gravity\, and the Cris
 is of Falsifiability\, Physics Department Colloquium\, Niayesh Afshord
 i\, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & the University of Wa
 terloo
DESCRIPTION:In the last decade of 19th century\, Hendrik Lorentz disco
 vered a group of transformations of space and "local time" that left M
 axwell equations of electromagnetism unchanged. In the ensuing decades
 \, this revelation led to the development of special and general theor
 ies of relativity by Einstein\, and has been the cornerstone of much o
 f theoretical physics and astrophysics ever since. In spite of its tre
 mendous success over the past century\,  in this talk I entertain the 
 possibility that Lorentz invariance might have been a "glorious histor
 ical accident"\, rather than a fundamental symmetry of nature! (My fav
 orite) motivations for this line of argument come from a need for fals
 ifiable theories of quantum gravity\, early universe\, dark energy\, a
 nd black hole physics.  
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2917
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