EVENT POSTPONED The Universe: Reality or Simulation?
EVENT POSTPONED The Universe: Reality or Simulation?
- Event time: 6:00pm until 7:00pm
- Event date: 4th May 2022
- Speaker: Professor Catherine Heymans (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Speaker: Professor Richard Kenway (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Swann Lecture Theatre, Swann Building, King's Buildings
Event details
***This event will no longer take place on 4 May 2022 - a new date will be announced in the near future.***
Join Professors Catherine Heymans and Richard Kenway as they discuss our understanding of the universe at this KB101 College Centenary Public Lecture.
The Universe: Reality or Simulation?
As we learn about the Universe, we discover more of it that can be simulated by a computer. If we program the known laws of physics into a computer and the result is indistinguishable from our observations, then we understand how that part of the Universe works. When a simulation differs from observation it gives a clue to new physics and a deeper understanding of reality.
In this way, physicists and astronomers at Edinburgh have been exploring the Universe from the largest scales to the quantum world inside a nucleus. Today, computer models of neural networks are solving tasks we once associated with human intelligence. So is our Universe, including ourselves, anything more than a simulation?
College Centenary Lecture Series
This talk is part of the College Centenary Lecture Series - celebrating a century of science and engineering at the University of Edinburgh King's Buildings campus.
Information about further College centenary events: KB101
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