Ontario Science Centre Public Lecture

Relativity: what is it, and what is it good for?

Public Lecture on Special Relativity, part of Einstein Festival , Ontario Science Centre , Toronto ON Canada, Sunday 12th June 2005. Presentation given by Prof. Amanda Peet , Department of Physics , University of Toronto and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program .

Presentation

My slides from today:

• JPEG files [~1.90Mb]
• Adobe PDF [~2.80Mb]

Other talks about string theory, gravity and black holes:

• Featured talks at Matt's String Theory Symposium at Terry Fox Elementary School, Barrie, ON (June 2004)
• Plenary talk at CUPC 2004 undergraduate physics conference, Victoria, BC (November 2004)

See also my online talks web hub .

[Free PDF viewer]

Extra reading

• The Elegant Universe - NOVA TV show website [ my interview ]
• superstringtheory.com
• Scientific American article: Black Holes and the Information Paradox, by Stanford Professor Leonard Susskind

Recommended books

• Universe on a T-shirt, by Dan Falk, 2002 [suitable for poets]
• The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene, 2000
• The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene, 2003
• Cosmic Landscape, by Leonard Susskind, 2005
• Warped Passages, by Lisa Randall, 2005

More of Prof. Peet's web pages

• home page

Last updated: 2006-01-01
URL: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~peet/online/osc/index.html