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SUMMARY:Christine Aidala and Gabriele Carcassi - Seven Misconceptions in the Foundations of Physics
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 "The foundations of physics are typically 
 associated with interpretations of quantum mechanics 
 and the search for a theory of everything. 
 Working on our project Assumptions of 
 Physics, which aims to find a minimal set of 
 physical starting points from which the laws 
 of physics can be rederived, gave us a different 
 perspective. In this talk we will discuss 
 seven ideas that most physicists take for granted 
 without realizing and which, as it turns 
 out, steer us in the wrong direction. Surpassing 
 these misconceptions leads us to a new 
 understanding of what the laws of physics are, 
 the relationship between physics and mathematics, 
 and what the ultimate goal of the foundations 
 of physics should be."\n
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 Bio\n
 Gabriele 
 Carcassi received his degree in informatics 
 engineering in 2000 from the Politecnico 
 di Milano, Italy. He worked for twenty years 
 in software and computing in support of large-scale 
 accelerator facilities and experiments, 
 from control systems and databases, to wide 
 area network data management and security. 
 For the past decade he has had an increasing 
 focus on foundational issues in physics, which 
 he now pursues full time. He has been a researcher 
 in the Physics Department at the University 
 of Michigan since 2012. He is particularly 
 interested in the boundaries between foundations 
 of physics, foundations of mathematics 
 and philosophy of science.\n
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 Christine 
 Aidala received her bachelor's degree in physics 
 and music from Yale University in 1999 and 
 her PhD in physics from Columbia University 
 in 2005. After a postdoctoral position with 
 the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she 
 was a Frederick Reines Distinguished Postdoctoral 
 Fellow and then staff scientist with Los 
 Alamos National Laboratory until joining the 
 faculty at the University of Michigan in 2012. 
 In addition to her theoretical work on the 
 foundations of physics, she performs experimental 
 research in high-energy nuclear physics, 
 studying the internal structure of the proton.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@fribm.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JuP9eUJUSJSvLv5870CZIQ\n
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