Introduced by Janna Levin, Melissa Franklin delivered the Roslyn Silver ’27 Science Lecture, “A Lab of One’s Own: A Place to Measure the Broken Symmetries of This Particular Elegant Universe,” on October 21, 2009 at Barnard College in New York City.
The indeterminacy of time-being at the core of quantum theory troubles the scalar distinction between the world of subatomic particles and that of social phenomena such as colonialism, capitalism, militarism, racism, nationalism and environmental destruction