Young College Professor chasing Albert Einstein
May 13, 2008 – 9:04 am by Nick
A leading theoretical physicist, Nima Arkani-Hamed is on the cusp of discovery that will further illuminate notions presented by Albert Einstein.
The brilliant, young physicists currently sits on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Einstein pursued his theories from 1933 until his death in 1955.
At Stanford University, the 36 year old physicist developed the theory of large extra dimensions with Savas Dimopoulos, inventior of the old paradigm of supersymmetry, that would eventually lead to the little Higgs theories. He joined Harvard’s faculty in 2001. Before being lured away to Princeton, he won the ‘Phi Beta Kappa’ award for teaching excellence.
The world’s largest particle accelerator cost between $5 billion and $10 billion. A substantial amount of scientist have hitched the future of physics on this 17-mile circular tunnel. The most powerful collider will allow scientists to slam small particles into one another at super-high energies. The valuable data collected could validate theories that have been lingering for a long time in the community.
String theory states the world is made of minuscule vibrating loops, or strings. Arkani-Hamed and his colleagues proposed that the strings vibrate in 11 dimensions. String theory offers an explanation for the weakness of gravity.
The Large Hadron Collider experiments, beginning this fall, will enable many mysteries from Einstein’s theories to be illuminated, expanding the world we live in.
-Watch the Elegant Universe from PBS
-Video of Nima Arkani-Hamed keynote
-Large Hadron Collider discussion at TED
-Interview with Dr. Arkani-Hamed
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