Einstein and the Atom
Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario), Wayne Myrvold

October 28, 2015, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University

Stevenson & Hunt Room A - Central Library
251 Dundas St.
London N6A 1H3
Canada

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Einstein’s name is widely associated with the “atom bomb,” via the formula E = MC2. Less widely known is that he played a key role in providing evidence that atoms exist at all. One of Einstein’s early papers was an analysis of Brownian motion, the ceaseless dance of tiny particles, such as pollen grains, suspended in a fluid. The dance of pollen grains, Einstein realized, was evidence that they are being buffeted by smaller particles, beyond microscopic resolution. This talk will be about the ingenuity required to turn the visible into evidence about the invisible.

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