02
Dec
Research, Innovation, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning
Undergraduate Students, Staff, Alumni, Prospective Students, Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Residents & Fellows
This event is free and open to the public.
Words like “nothingness” and “empty space” may seem like simple concepts, referring to the complete absence of content. But in practice, these concepts have been topics of ongoing debate with important implications for our understanding of the universe. This panel discussion and Q&A at this event, involving several leading Pitt experts as well as our distinguished visitor James Owen Weatherall (author of the popular book Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing), will reveal in publicly accessible terms some of the complications and interesting ideas that arise when we try to get a grip on…nothing. What is (or is not) really out there? What are its properties? What shape does it take? Join us to find out a lot about nothing!
This event is presented in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science and is free and open to the public.
Dial-In Information
Visit https://www.as.pitt.edu/sciencerevealed to register. Login information provided upon registration.
Thursday, December 2 at 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Virtual EventWords like “nothingness” and “empty space” may seem like simple concepts, referring to the complete absence of content. But in practice, these concepts have been topics of ongoing debate with important implications for our understanding of the universe. This panel discussion and Q&A at this event, involving several leading Pitt experts as well as our distinguished visitor James Owen Weatherall (author of the popular book Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing), will reveal in publicly accessible terms some of the complications and interesting ideas that arise when we try to get a grip on…nothing. What is (or is not) really out there? What are its properties? What shape does it take? Join us to find out a lot about nothing!
This event is presented in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science and is free and open to the public.
Dial-In Information
Visit https://www.as.pitt.edu/sciencerevealed to register. Login information provided upon registration.
Thursday, December 2 at 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Virtual Event
Undergraduate Students, Staff, Alumni, Prospective Students, Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Residents & Fellows
This event is free and open to the public.