2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2014

Session

Banquet and after dinner speaker (David Pearson "A Little Physics Goes a Long Way") / Banquet et conférencier

R-Banquet

19 Jun 2014, 19:00

Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne

413. A Little Physics Goes a Long Way

David Pearson (Laurentian University)

19/06/2014, 20:00

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité

The spirit of Ernest Rutherford is in the human architecture of Science North. The snowflake slowly settling on the black rock is physics too, and maybe the rubber shock absorbers the structural engineers said we’d need if the Creighton Fault ever moved. Certainly Scotch and heavy water would have pleased Rutherford. Nobody expected Sudbury would ever have Canada’s second largest science...