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physics of events

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New windows on the Universe

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.
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Clocks to the rescue!

Leslie Lamport explains how he used logical clocks to set history straight in distributed systems.
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High fidelity

Is the Universe digital, just like the world of computers? Discuss!
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Violating causality

Leslie Lamport explains how an understanding of special relativity helped him realise how to order events in computer science, and enabled the development of distributed computing.
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What happens inside your computer?

My view of the events taking place on my computer is very different to how a computer scientist, a engineer or a physicist would view what is happening inside the box. Leslie Lamport explains how the definition of an event distinguishes between these areas of research.