The End of Physics? The Beginning of Physics?

Lecture given at
Warsaw University
31 May 2001
By Brian G Wybourne

  • First 5 Slides
  • Otto von Guericke's spectacular public demonstration 1650
  • Sunspots, the Moon and Technology
  • John of Worcester's sunspot drawing
  • Thomas Harriot's Sunspots
  • Thomas Harriot's Moon drawing
  • Galileo's telescope
  • Newton's telescope
  • Technological Progress
  • Michelson's interferometer
  • The Growth of Technology
  • A Note on Michelson
  • New Physics at the End of the 20th Century
  • Fullerenes by Leonardo da Vinci
  • New Physics at the End of the 20th Century
  • Into the 21st Century
  • Very Large Telescopes ESO Chile
  • The OWL Telescope
  • CERN Announcement
  • Into the 21st Century: CERN
  • Brookhaven
  • Into the 21st Century: Ring Lasers
  • The CI Ring Laser
  • The CII Ring Laser
  • The Grosse Ring Laser
  • The Higgs Boson?
  • The Higgs Boson?
  • More Discoveries
  • Euler's Disk
  • McDonald's Physics Examples