• INTO THE DARK: The Future History of the Universe - Professor Fred Adams Click Here to watch portions of the video.


• The Beginning and End of Time: Life, The Universe, and Nothing - Professor Lawrence M. Krauss Click Here to watch portions of the video.


• The Nature of Space and Time - Professor Gary T. Horowitz. Click Here to watch portions of the video.


• Two-Time Physics: The Unified View From Higher Dimensional Space and Time - Professor Itzhak Bars


• Is time travel possible? - Professor Ken Olum

The standard models of cosmology -- the big bang theory without the inflationary theory -- had to suffer from the three problems , namely, the smoothness problem, the horizon problem, and the flatness problem. The first problem asks why the matter is uniformly distributed, the second concerns the large-scale uniformity of the observable universe, and the third problem asks why the universe is close to being spatially flat.

Developed in the 1920's by great physicists Schrödinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Bohr, Born,Fermi, Dirac and others, it describes the laws of the nature for the subatomic world.

These laws are unfamiliar to our everyday experience and they seem to be strange and revolutionary when compared to the laws of classical physics and the laws governing he macroscopic universe.

The phrase "Theory of Everything" has been used in the scientific and semi-scientific community within the last 30 years. It usually refers to such a theory that formulates and unifies both quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity. This kind of theory usually describes the nature of space-time. String theories and M-theory have been labeled as candidates for the theory of everything. Others include Loop Quantum Gravity, the Holographic Principle and Twistor Theory

The concept of string theory is one of the most popular concepts of the last 20 years in theoretical physics. Sometimes referred to as "a theory from the 21st century physics that was accidentally discovered in the 20th century," string theories define the basic building blocks of the universe as one dimensional strings (filaments of energy as small as 10-33 cm) that vibrate in multi-dimensional space-time. In this theory, strings replace the structure less point particles as the basic building blocks of matter. Different vibrational modes of strings correspond to the elementary point particles.

INTO THE DARK:
The Future History of the Universe - Prof. Fred Adams
Our Miserable Future - Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss

Date: Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: The Chicago Academy of Sciences - Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N. Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614
773-775-5100
Click here for Brochure Cover, Inside

Admission: Free to the Public
Events supported by grant RFP1-06-30 from Foundational Questions Institute (fqxi.org).

Is time travel possible? - Professor Ken Olum
Einstein's Biggest Blunder? A Cosmic Mystery Story - Professor Lawrence M. Krauss

Date: September 15, 2007
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location:38 Cameron Gallery 38 Cameron Avenue, Suite 100
Cambridge, MA, 02140
Click here for Brochure Cover, Inside

The Beginning and End of Time: Life, The Universe, and Nothing. Professor Lawrence M. Krauss, Case Western Reserve University. Two-Time Physics: The Unified View From Higher Dimensional Space and Time. Professor Itzhak Bars - University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Date: Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location: Hillel center at UCLA
Click here for Brochure Cover, Inside,

This event is supported by grant RFP1-06-30 from Foundational Questions Institute (fqxi.org).

String Theory: A Theory of Anything? A Theory of Nothing? A Theory?
Professor Lawrence M. Krauss, Case Western Reserve University.
String Theory: What is it Good for? Professor John Terning, University of California, Davis.

Date: Saturday, April 7, 2007
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: University of California, Berkeley (Lawrence Hall of Science)
Click here for Brochure Cover, Inside, Flyer

This event is supported by grant RFP1-06-30 from Foundational Questions Institute (fqxi.org)

The Nature of Space and Time, Professor Gary T. Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara. Finding a Home in the Multiverse, Professor Anthony Aguirre, UC Santa Cruz. Extra Dimensions, Professor John Terning, UC Davis.

Date: Saturday, December 17, 2005
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Click here for Brochure Cover, Inside

The World as a Hologram, Professor Raphael Bousso, UC Berkeley. Finding a Home in the Multiverse, Professor Anthony Aguirre, UC Santa Cruz. Extra Dimensions, Professor John Terning, UC Davis.

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2005
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley
Click here for Brochure Cover, Inside