ORAU Sponsors Lecture by Nobel Laureate on "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics"

Nobel Laureate
Dr. David J. Gross

The dimensions of the universe, quantum gravity, time and space and more of physics' most intriguing questions were explored by Nobel Laureate Dr. David J. Gross during the 12th Annual Putcha Venkateswarlu Memorial Lecture recently at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Ala. ORAU was a sponsor of Dr. Gross' lecture, which was titled, "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics."

Dr. Gross was the co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Politzer and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction."

Their discovery led to a completely new theory, Quantum ChromoDynamics, which helps physicists explain why quarks act only as free particles at extremely high temperatures.