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Lecture series: The great scientific revolutions of the present time Subject: The quantum revolution Some revolutions are slow and do not cause bloodshed. During the 1920s, physics experienced such a revolution, a major and peaceful upheaval that concerned only the world of ideas: physicists then understood that atoms, these small grains of matter that they had discovered a few years earlier, are not ordinary objects. Since their behavior does not obey the laws of usual physics, it was necessary to discover new ones. What are these new laws? French physicist, former student of Centrale Paris and columnist on France-Culture, Étienne Klein discusses the great scientific revolutions. Galileo's influence on modern science, the crucial question of the irreversibility of time, Einstein's theory of relativity and the great principles of gravitation, the notion of mass or the recent discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson... Étienne Klein invites you to follow him into the twists and turns of contemporary cosmology. You leave work and find yourself initiated into the mysteries of science. Enough to develop new atoms with scientific knowledge... ... hooked. http://www.parenthese-culture.fr/conf...