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Instant Expert – Relativity and Beyond / 29 October 2016 / Book tickets Only 10 days to go! Join us on a 13.8-billion-year journey through the cosmos at Instant Expert – Relativity and Beyond. At this one-day masterclass you will learn directly from six leading experts in the fascinating fields of cosmology and relativity, including:   David Kaiser   Physicist and historian of science at MIT The general theory of relativity is Albert Einstein's most enduring scientific legacy – it's physicists' reigning explanation for gravity, and the basis for nearly all our thinking about the cosmos. Physicist and author of How the Hippies Saved Physics, David Kaiser will introduce the revolutionary theory, and place it firmly in context of both its time and ours. Book tickets   Tasneem Zehra Husain   Physicist and writer Einstein knew the general theory of relativity was not the final world; that a 'Theory of Everything' would encompass all we know. By stitching general relativity and quantum mechanics together, string theory accomplishes this seemingly impossible task. Tasneem Zehra Husain will discuss what string theory is, how it resolves the violent conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity, and more. Book tickets   Book your tickets now   Saturday October 29 2016, 10am - 5pm (doors 9:15am) 66 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA 02116 Learn how Einstein's work sparked a revolution in our understanding of the cosmos; what the news about gravitational waves really means; the nature of the universe's missing 95%; the extraordinary lengths physicists go to unlock gravity's secrets and how black holes could hold the key to a theory of everything. Also speaking: – Lisa Barsotti – physicist at MIT and member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team – Robert Caldwell – cosmologist at Dartmouth College – James Guillochon – ITC Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics – Priya Natarajan – professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University Ticket includes continental breakfast, lunch, plus morning and afternoon refreshments. Book your tickets now

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