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What Nostalgia Was: The History of a Deadly Emotion
NYU Gallatin 1 Washington Place, New YorkPeople once died of nostalgia. While we all recognize nostalgia when we see it, and know that it “ain’t what it used to be,” few of us are familiar with what it once was. This talk uncovers the forgotten medical history of nostalgia from the term's invention in Switzerland in 1688 to the disease's demise […]
From Einstein’s Doubts to Quantum Technologies: A New Quantum Revolution
Simons Foundation 160 5th Ave, New YorkThe debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr over the interpretation of quantum mechanics was settled by the experimental tests of Bell’s inequalities. Those experiments drew attention to the revolutionary character of quantum entanglement, which is now a key ingredient of quantum computing and quantum information. In this lecture, Alain Aspect will first explain Einstein’s […]
Secret Science Club Presents Astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli
The Bell House 149 7th St, BrooklynGravitational waves in space-time are like ripples in a pond cause by a pebble thrown in the water—that is, if the pebble’s impact had the energy of, say, our own Sun exploding. Predicted by Einstein in 1916, gravitational waves proved devilishly difficult to detect. It was only in 2015 that scientists were first able to pinpoint the existence of a real-life gravitational wave, echoing […]