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Noted professor
speaks for World
Year of Physics
Kip Thome will address Albert Einstein's legacy
on the centennial of five famous physics papers
BY EVA SYLWESTER
NEWS REPORTER
The University will celebrate World
Year of Physics with a lecture by Kip
Thome, the Feynman Professor of The
oretical Physics at the California Insti
tute of Technology, in 100 Willamette
Hall on Thursday, March 24 at 7 p.m.
Thorne said he plans to speak about
Albert Einstein’s legacy in the modem
world. The United Nations declared
2005 the World Year of Physics in hon
or of the 100th anniversary of Ein
stein’s “miraculous year.”
In 1905, Einstein was an unknown
26-year-old patent clerk in Switzer
land. By the end of the year, he had
published five papers relating to three
important problems in physics: special
relativity, or a concept of how the uni
verse would function without gravity;
the photoelectric effect, the idea that
light beams are more like particles
than waves; and Brownian motion, the
study of how molecules in a given vol
ume of liquid move around.
“He wrote these papers, and he sud
denly became a widely known guy,”
University mathematics professor Jim
Isenberg explained. “Two of these pa
pers became the basis of how we un
derstand the universe works.”
Ten years later, in 1915, Einstein
developed the theory of general rela
tivity, which integrated gravity into
his previous theory of special relativi
ty. This theory explains how time and
space fit together and emphasizes
that the shortest path between two
objects — for example, a mountain
climber and the top of a mountain —
may be curved rather than linear. The
theory became well known in 1919
after a publicized experiment demon
strated that the path of light from
stars to Earth bends in different ways
based on the earth’s varying posi
tions in relation to the sun.
“You never prove a theory, ... but
what you show is, at this time, this
is the best way to understand it,”
Isenberg said.
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Isenberg said since the 1960s,
physicists have macfe progress to
ward understanding things Einstein
predicted, such as black holes and
gravitational radiation. Einstein pre
dicted black holes in 1916, Isenberg
said, and now scientists know every
galaxy has black holes. A black hole
is a massive stellar object concentrat
ed in a very small space, which cre
ates a gravitational pull that not even
light can escape, in theory.
“Albert Einstein gave us a number of
very surprising insights into the laws
that govern the nature of the universe,”
Thorne said. “Those insights never
came to fruition until decades later.”
Thorne researches black holes.
While black holes do not emit light or
x-rays, he said, they emit gravitational
waves. Thorne is one of the founders
of the Laser Interferometer Gravitation
al Wave Observatory, which is a series
of instruments set up in Hanford,
Wash., and Livingston, La., to investi
gate gravitational waves.
Thorne also plans to speak about
quantum mechanics, the laws that
govern atoms and molecules. He said
future directions of the field may in
clude quantum cryptography, un
breakable methods of encoding infor
mation, and quantum teleportation,
the teleportation of quantum infor
mation over great distances.
Isenberg and Thome have collabo
rated since 1985 on the Pacific Coast
Gravity Meeting, an annual conference
about gravitational relativity. Isenberg
said the conference usually meets at
the California Institute of Technology
in Santa Barbara, but this year, it will
meet in Eugene on March 25 and 26.
While the conference is open to all,
Isenberg said the speeches are often
very specialized, but he asked Thome
to give a speech that would be under
standable to “anybody who knows a
little bit about science.”
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