Worldwide Webcast
Beyond Einstein
To celebrate Einstein Year (World Year of Physics), some of the world's leading physics laboratories are taking part in a 12 hour webcast to show public audiences the excitement of Einstein's life, science and legacy. The programme will be broadcast from locations including CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory and birthplace of the World Wide Web, on December 1st 2005. Audience members will be able to submit questions during discussions with Nobel prize winners, internet pioneers and famous scientists such as Stephen Hawking. Students age 15-19 will be able to participate in an online quiz.
In addition to CERN, participating institutions include: Imperial College London, the Telecom Future Lab (Venice), the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago), the Exploratorium (San Francisco) hosting scientists from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem) and the National Science Education Centre (Taipei).
The programme includes subjects such as relativity, gravitational waves, mass and gravity, antimatter, and neutrinos, along with the mysteries left open by Einstein's physics and the technologies derived from it. A global audience will be able to discuss the impact of Einstein' s discoveries and look beyond them with top level physicists such as Stephen Hawking and Paul Davies, and with physics Nobel laureates David Gross, Murray Gell-Mann and Gerard 't Hooft, connected from the 2005 Solvay physics Conference in Brussels (16:10 GMT).
From Imperial College London, Peter Kirstein will be joined by fellow Internet pioneer Bob Kahn, and Robert Cailliau who played a key role at the birth of the Web to explore the role that basic science plays in the evolution of information technology. Nobel laureate Leon Lederman will host a show live from Fermilab, featuring interviews with young physicists, fun physics demonstrations, as well as live music (19:30 GMT).
As well as looking at the birth of the Internet and the web, the UK section of the webcast will bring together scientists working on the Grid, the next generation of the Internet. Physicists are leading the way in developing the Grid, which harnesses computing resources worldwide to allow scientists to analyse massive amounts of data. This section is supported by GridPP, who are building the UK Grid for particle physics.
The second hour of the UK webcast will be about neutrinos. It feature sDave Wark, Ken Long and Yoshi Uchida, who between them will give an overview of neutrino physics oscillations - some of the current problems under investigation and the detectors being used to look into them. There is a 15 minute section where control is passed back to CERN to talk about the CERN neutrino programme and this will include a live link to the Ice Cube experiment at the South Pole.
This section will end with a Live Q&A section with section coming from the audience and emails to beyondeinstein@imperial.ac.uk
WATCH THE LIVE WEBCASTS and take part in the Online Quiz
Thursday December 1st, 2005 from 11:00 to 23:00 GMT
http://www.cern.ch/beyondeinstein