Gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit dem Italienischen Generalkonsulat:
Modern Science dialogues: a talk with Guido TONELLI (Book Fair – Guest of Honour 2024 Italy) and Luciano REZZOLLA
Introduction and moderation: Paolo FERRI
(Event in English)
Since the beginning of the last century our understanding of time and matter has rapidly evolved. Starting with the first models of the atom and its constituents, and using increasingly larger and more powerful accelerators, physics has delved deeper and deeper into the microscopic world, from subatomic particles to quarks, thus leading to the development of the Standard Model of elementary particles and the discovery of the Higgs boson. At the same time, thanks to new powerful telescopes, on Earth and in space, and to the recent development of gravitational-waves detectors, astrophysics has allowed us to probe the depths of the universe where extreme objects, such as neutron stars and black holes, amaze us with their incredible properties. At these two extremes scales – microscopic and macroscopic – and in regimes so much different from our everyday perception, the study of matter and gravity can guide us to understand the fundamental properties of the physical world.
