Science & Cocktails: The Melody of Nature

Science & Cocktails is a series of public talks by scientists with live music and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand.

The Melody of Nature – the magical world of the very small

The answers to many of the mysteries about how nature works are hidden somewhere in a world that is invisible to the human eye. Particle accelerators have allowed us to descend deeper and deeper into the world of the very small. Probing nature at these scales and studying the elementary building blocks of nature is an exciting adventure. Each step down the spiral staircase has revealed new secrets about how nature works and the strange new insights - like quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity - have found their way into applications that form the basis of our modern society.

The Nobel Prize winning discovery of the Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European center for particle physics, was not the end of the journey. Far from it! There are many unsolved mysteries left: what is that ‘dark matter’ that fills the universe, where did all the anti-matter go, are there more dimensions of space and where does everything come from in the first place? These riddles and our visions of hidden worlds that could provide answers drive the journey onwards. Deep underground in Switzerland. Adventure!

This event is an initiative by the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (DIEP) with the support of the University of Amsterdam. Science & Cocktails Amsterdam is presented in cooperation with Paradiso Amsterdam