Purdue University - Department of Physics - General Colloquium
Gravity in extra dimensions

Thursday October 20, 2005


Professor Joseph Lykken
Theoretical Physics Department Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Gravity is the least understood of the fundamental forces. As Einstein showed, gravity is intimately connected to the shape and dynamics of spacetime. String theorists expect that, at microscopic scales, spacetime should reveal both a quantum nature and the existence of several extra dimensions. This has dramatic implications for our thinking about gravity, many of which will be testable in experiments.