Beyond Einstein: world wide webcast

On Thursday 1st December, CERN will be involved in Beyond Einstein, a 12–hour live world wide webcast, which will feature participants from across the globe marking the World Year of Physics.
For further information and to watch the webcast please visit the website of the event.

Viewers on the web will be able to tune into one of the most extensive videoconference in the world to learn more about Einstein's physics and how it continues to influence cutting-edge research worldwide.

The event kicks off at midday (CET) with a live presentation at CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation, featuring a symbolic link-up with the New Library of Alexandria, in Egypt. There will then be transmissions from a host of research institutions such as Imperial College, Fermilab, and SLAC. There will also be live connections with Jerusalem, Taipei, San Francisco, Tasmania and even Antarctica.

“Connections will be established among virtually all the time zones on Earth, a perfect way to celebrate Einstein, who revolutionized the concept of time”, said Paola Catapano, the producer of the event.

The viewing public will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the day on such topics as relativity, time-travel, the Grid, neutrinos, and the most important mysteries raised by Einstein’s physics. At 5:10pm CET, luminaries such as Steven Hawking and Murray Gell-Mann will answer questions from a conference in Brussels. Then at 8pm CET Fermilab in Chicago will be the venue for The Late Show with Leon Lederman, hosted by the Nobel Prize recipient himself.

Furthermore, the content of the web-cast does not restrict itself to Einstein's theories. For example, in the light of the fact that Einstein was himself a refugee, the UNHCR (the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) will be discussing the positive contribution refugees can make to their society of adoption.

These are just some of the highlights from 12 hours that will see the web bringing the world of physics together to celebrate the culmination of the Year of Physics.

For further information and to watch the webcast please visit the website of the event.

November 2005