What's So Small to You is So Large to Me

New developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. The Large Hadron Collider, which houses a 27 km ring accelerating protons to enormously high energies 100 meters underground, contains the most extensive and elaborate experiments ever built. In this lecture I will explore the nature of these experiments and what the tiny distances they will explore might teach us. I will also comment on searches for dark matter at the LHC and elsewhere.

Speaker: Lisa Randall, Professor of Physics, Harvard University