LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO
God thou great symmetry Who put a biting lust in me From whence my arrows spring For all the wasted days That I have spent in hopeless ways Give me One perfect thing Anna Wickham The lamp of symmetry has guided developments from Pythagoras to Gell-Mann. It may be surprising to realize that the concept of gravity originated with the Greeks as the first connection to the spherical shape of the earth. Galileo penetrated the laws of motion using symmetry ideas. Symmetry guided the development of elements from Aristotle's earth, air, fire, water and ether to Mendelyeev's Periodic Table to Quarks and Leptons. And now we search for SuperSymmetry. It is equally fascinating to see how the ideas of symmetry-breaking evolved from early stages to the modern CP violation.

DATA: 22-05-2013