discussion moderated by Matteo Massicci
 

Why do we live in a universe made of matter? And what is the matter the universe is made of, made of? Or again, how did the universe originate, and what is the fate that lies in store for it? These are only a few of the more fascinating questions to which basic physics endeavours to provide an answer with its theories and its experiments. But when our instruments tell us something, how can we trust them to such an extent that we can claim to have observed something new, as in the discovery of the Higgs boson or gravitational waves, for instance? Uncertainty underlies all science because it is not merely an absence of information, it is a structural condition, as quantum mechanics have taught us, and it cannot be eliminated from nature or from our way of studying it. Progress in physics and in our knowledge is thus irrevocably pegged to our ability to understand and manage uncertainty.

Informazioni

Available in live streaming on the Palazzo delle Esposizioni website and Facebook page and on the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Facebook page and Youtube channel