Dan is the author of the award-winning new book, "Universe
on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything"
(Viking Canada). The book, aimed at beginners, tells the
story of the 2500-year-old search for nature's ultimate
laws. It is the winner of this year's science journalism
award from the Canadian Science Writers' Association. In
1999, he was the winner of the American Institute of Physics
Prize for Science Writing in Physics and Astronomy for the
non-specialist in the category of broadcast media for his
documentary "From Empedocles to Einstein", which
aired on the CBC radio program "Ideas". He is
also featured on the Canadian
Association of Physicists Careers page.
Abstract of the
Talk
Can the universe be understood in terms of a single theory
- a theory so concise it could fit on a T-shirt? Dan Falk's
presentation is based on his award-winning book, Universe
on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything, which
tells the story of the search for nature's ultimate laws
in easy-to-follow, non-technical language. The story begins
with the bold ideas of the ancient Greeks and continues
through the Scientific Revolution
and the breakthroughs of the 20th century - with a glimpse
of what the future may bring.
