DOE World Year of Physics Lectures
How DOE Contributes to Our Understanding of the Origins of the Universe
"Brown Bag" Lunch Presentations
Celebrating the World Year of Physics
The year 2005 is the centennial of Albert Einstein's "miracle year," 1905, the year in which he published three extraordinary scientific papers that changed our understanding of the world in which we live. One showed that matter is composed of tiny, but discrete atoms and molecules rather than being a continuous medium, as some eminent physicists had believed. Another showed that light behaves like a wave in many circumstances, but like a stream of particles in certain cases; and the third launched the theory of relativity.
The Department of Energy and its predecessor organizations have played a major role in working out the mysteries of modern physics. Over the next year, a series of informal presentations - pitched for non scientists - will explore these mysteries and discuss the future of science in the 21st Century and how it may impact all our lives.
|
DOE World Year of Physics Lectures
Congressional WYP Resolutions
What Is Physics?
The
Role of Physics in Science and Engineering
DOE Office of Science: Heir to the Revolutionary Work of Albert Einstein
Time Is of the Essence In Special Relativity
The Twin Paradox
The Benefits of Investments in Basic Research in the Physical Sciences
Featured DOE
Nobel Physicists
DOE Physicists
at Work
Archive
DOE National Laboratories’
WYP Websites
WYP News
Related WYP Links
|