Avec Frank Wilczek, dans le cadre du cycle : Les grandes conférences de l'École normale supérieure. Enregistré le 14-04-2008 à 18:00. Over the course of the twentieth century we have constructed a very successful fundamental theory of the behavior of matter. Viewed from this perspective, the world looks very different from our everyday reality. It is a very strange place, and a beautiful one -- in particular, we have come to understand that the building blocks of matter appear as notes in a Music of the Void. I shall describe this using a combination of facts, pictures, and jokes. Finally I shall discuss some recent discoveries indicating that the world is even stranger than we have understood so far, and how we are rising to the challenge.
