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Course

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Physics 3710 – Intermediate Modern Physics, Spring 2018

Publication Date

1-8-2018

First Page

1

Last Page

3

Abstract

This course deals with the structure of matter at its extreme length scales: cosmological on the large end (on the order of 1026 m), sub-nuclear on the small (less than 10-19 m). It also deals with the now firmly established realization that the organization of matter on these two phenomenally different scales is actually intimately connected. This course is about science in its most alive and vibrant state: what we think we know about the big and small of the universe changes virtually daily. Satellite observatories and ground-based particle accelerators make what was formerly “common knowledge” obsolete at a rapid pace. That’s one reason the course is so cool. Another is the kind of questions this science is about: it deals with the most fundamental questions of all—where did we come from and where are we going?

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