The Big Questions

Mathematical Physics has helped answer many of the big questions about our world. Here are just a few examples:

Is the earth flat?

What does the falling of an apple tell us about the planets?

Is there a connection between electricity and magnetism?

What is light?

How does the world look when you travel on a light beam?

Is the universe flat?

How does the world look when you fall into a black hole?

Is the universe finite or infinite?

Is an electron a wave or a particle (or neither)?

Does an electron spin?

Why does antimatter exist?

How precisely can we predict the future?

Does entropy always increase?

Why does the sun shine?

Why has nobody ever found a quark?

Where does mass come from?

Is there a difference between left and right?

How can you detect a gravitational wave?

What is an electron made of?

How many spacetime dimensions are there?

Do we live in a universe or a multiverse?

We hope that by the end of your degree you will not only know the answers to at least some of these questions, but that you will also understand how mathematical physicists found those answers, and be able to pose a few such questions of your own. And some day perhaps even answer them!