The Superconducting Universe: Breaking symmetry
Fri Jul 22 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre A
Presented by Professor Ray Volkas
Could the entire universe be a superconductor? Some of the ideas used to explain superconductivity have had a surprising cross over into fundamental particle physics and our understanding of deep symmetries in the structure of matter at the most fundamental scale. Breaking these symmetries leads to the idea of the Higgs boson and the origin of mass. This lecture looks at the wide frontiers of superconductivity.