The Heart of Matter – Jan 22

Physics has always sought to deepen our understanding of reality, particularly our concept of matter. Today, city-size machines crash together particles — at nearly the speed of light — that are a trillion times smaller than a grain of sand. The resulting insights have both theoretical and practical value: a more profound (and weird) concept of existence, and new technologies such as diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy. Wonderfest joins BookShop West Portal — online — to present physicist Dr. Suzie Sheehy in discussion of her new book The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World. [Image: The ATLAS detector of CERN's Large Hadron Collider]

Dr. Suzie Sheehy is a physicist, science communicator, and academic who divides her time between research groups at England's University of Oxford and Australia's University of Melbourne.