Events & Calendars Eric Cornell, 2001 Nobel Prize Winner: "Lazy vs. Sloppy: The Epic Story of Energy, Entropy, Temperature, the Ultimate Fate of the Universe and the Role of Divine Intervention"

Much of what happens in the natural world makes more sense if it is understood as an Olympian struggle between two contradictory imperatives: laziness and sloppiness. Which will win in the end? What interesting things will happen around us along the journey to the end? To what extent is the speaker attempting to make excuses by projecting his own flaws onto nature?

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