SCOTT MENARY
Professor of Physics
York University

“Those interconnections (between quantum and cosmos) have gotten deeper and deeper, I’d say over the last decade. But now we’ve discovered that at the point of the big bang, the big bang created quarks, anti-quarks, electrons, positrons, and that’s particle physics. So the sort of stew of those particles at that point, how they interacted, what happened to them, has decided the future of the universe.”

DR. PAUL NIENABER, SJ.
Chair of Physics
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

“Of the stuff that we can see when we look out at the sky at night, the stuff that we can see is only 5% of all the stuff in the universe. And we know that there’s another 25% of stuff in the universe that we can’t see, but we know it’s there because it gravitates. It attracts gravitationally. But there’s 70% of the stuff, that if we understand the universe correctly now, 70% of the stuff in the universe, we have no idea what it is. So we make up this word and we call it dark energy. That I can stand up here with a straight face and say these things to you… And not only that, I can get up here and say, I just made a statement. How do I know that those numbers are true, that they’re 5 and 25 and 70? What’s the experimental evidence? Here it is boys and girls. That’s a triumph of the human mind.”

DR. CHRIS QUIGG
Theoretical Physicist
Fermilab

“One of the great insights, in my mind the greatest discovery of all of the 20th century, of all of science, is the recognition that the human scale, our size, our time intervals that we perceive, is not preferred for understanding nature, even on the human scale.”

DR. EDWARD W. KOLB
Director of the Particle Astrophysics Center
Fermilab

“I’m a cosmologist. I study the largest things in the universe. One of the things we’ve learned in cosmology is that to understand the largest things in the universe, we have to understand nature on the smallest levels. The quantum world shapes the macro world, shapes the cosmic world.”

DR. PETER SKANDS
Theoretical Physicist
Fermilab

“Quantum mechanics is a huge revolution and when you meet it as a student, it bends your mind and you can’t understand that it can be so. And you think it’s ridiculous. But you can make experiments that show this is what really happens. This is how nature is. So regardless of whether you think it makes sense or not, you’ve got to try and understand it.”

DR. ARLENE LENNOX
Director of Neutron Therapy
Fermilab

“At the beginning of the second World War, Lawrence had invented the cyclotron and the government began to realize that the cyclotron could be used for ultimately processing the uranium, that ultimately became the bomb.”

DR. ENRICO LUNGHI
Theoretical Physicist
Fermilab

“A quantum idea is that if this is the profile for the electron, it’s not that the electron is somewhere there. The electron is everywhere there. It’s not like it sits there so we have only to measure it better. It’s like it is really everywhere with some probability.”

PAUL DELANEY
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
York University

“Matter is your run of the mill everyday regular protons, neutrons, electrons and a whole slew of subatomic particles that go into making up the atom. But at the simplest form, you and I are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons and various fields that are associated with those particles, that keep us together, that form cells, and larger aggregates. And that scales up to planets, stars, galaxies the whole nine yards. Run of the mill, everyday molecular matter.”

PROFESSOR JANET CONRAD
Columbia University
MiniBooNE Experiment Fermilab

“Every time we’ve looked at a factor of ten higher in energy we’ve found something new. It’s really exciting because every time we’ve looked at the universe on a different wavelength, we’ve looked at the sky, we look in the visible light and in the radiowaves, and we look in the ultraviolet, we see a different universe. And the same thing is true in our little particle universes…so I think it’s incredibly promising.” (referring to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN turning on in 2008)

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