{"122361":{"#nid":"122361","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Joseph Ford Lecture with Dr. David Farrelly","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Physics welcomes Utah State University Professor David Farrelly on \u0022God Does Play Dice: How Chaos Crafted the Kuiper Belt, Why Quantum Mechanics is Craps, and other Curmudgeonly Concepts\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoseph Ford saw beauty in \u0022Chaos\u0022 and the potential for \u0022villainous chaos\u0022 to be used in a constructive manner. His ideas have proved prescient. The talk will focus mainly on how chaotic dynamics may have played a key constructive -- rather than destructive -- role in shaping certain features of the Kuiper belt: in particular, the formation and properties of binary objects in the transneptunian part of the Solar System. Kuiper belt binaries stand out from other known binary objects in having a range of peculiar orbital and physical properties which may, actually, be the fingerprint of chaos in the primordial Kuiper belt. Understanding how these remote binaries formed may shed light on the formation and evolution of the Solar System itself.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Physics welcomes Utah State University Professor David Farrelly on\u0026nbsp;\u0022God Does Play Dice: How Chaos Crafted the Kuiper Belt, Why Quantum Mechanics is Craps, and other Curmudgeonly Concepts\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022God Does Play Dice: How Chaos Crafted the Kuiper Belt, Why Quantum Mechanics is Craps, and other Curmudgeonly Concepts\u0022"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2012-04-05 15:37:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:41","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-09T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-09T21:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-09T21:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-10 00:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-10 01:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-10 01:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ion.chem.usu.edu\/~david\/","title":"Dr. David Farrelly"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"29581","name":"chaos"},{"id":"29571","name":"Kuiper belt"},{"id":"960","name":"physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}