If these are the issues that keep you from sleeping at night, it’s probably your inner physicist breaking out.
Seven questions that keep physicists up at night
- 23:58 23 October 2009 by Ivan Semeniuk, Waterloo
It’s not your average confession show: a panel of leading physicists spilling the beans about what keeps them tossing and turning in the wee hours.
That was the scene a few days ago in front of a packed auditorium at the Perimeter Institute, in Waterloo, Canada, when a panel of physicists was asked to respond to a single question: “What keeps you awake at night?”
The discussion was part of “Quantum to Cosmos“, a 10-day physics extravaganza, which ends on Sunday.
While most panelists professed to sleep very soundly, here are seven key conundrums that emerged during the session, which can be viewed here.
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Why this universe?
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What is everything made of?
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How does complexity happen?
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Will string theory ever be proved correct?
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What is the singularity?
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What is reality really?
