14 billion years on, what can we learn about original imperfection?

The conventional wisdom is that if you want to learn more about the early universe, you build a bigger telescope, and that if you want to learn more about subatomic particles, you build a bigger accelerator. I will talk about a third and complementary way to get at both sorts of questions: table-top precision measurement. As an example I will discuss the result of our recent attempt to see tiny differences between the north pole and the south pole of the humble electron.

Speaker: Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder

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