Seminars and Colloquia
Physics
The day the fate of the universe hung on the whims of a portly fly…
Fri, Sep 02, 2016,
04:30 PM
at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building
Dr. Arun Thalapillil
IISER Pune
The 60s were an exciting time for particle physicists, much as it is today. Much was understood, but much was unknown. Out of this era came a beautiful experiment that shattered our preconceptions of nature’s laws — the Cronin-Fitch experiment. It for the first time conclusively demonstrated that matter and anti-matter could behave differently in the universe. In this brief, informal talk I hope to review the importance of their experiment, what it showed and how it was theoretically understood in the end. But is it truly the end, or is past merely a prologue?
