Tue 1 Dec · 6pm
The Toxteth · Glebe
a big idea explained by an expert, then dinner and debate at the pub
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Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.
This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.
Event Schedule:
6pm Arrival & Doors Open
7pm Lecture Starts
7.45pm Q&A
8pm Talk Concludes
8.30pm Event Closes.
*Please arrive close to 6pm
A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.
Your Topic:
Hidden symmetries: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
One of the most profound insights underpinning modern science emerges from a profoundly simple, almost paradoxical question: What stays the same when something changes?
The concept of symmetry is deeply ingrained into everyday human experience, from the patterns of snowflakes to the elegance of origami. But in physics and mathematics, symmetry takes on a far more precise meaning. It was the remarkable insight of one mathematician that revealed an extraordinary connection between symmetry and the conservation laws of nature—one that would arguably become the cornerstone of modern physics and our ability to predict how the universe evolves at the most fundamental level.
Although relatively intuitive in classical mechanics, symmetries evolved with the revolutionary ideas of Einstein's relativity and the strange world of quantum mechanics,…
Quick answers
When is Hidden symmetries: The more things change, the more they stay the same.?
Tue 1 Dec 2026, 6pm.
Where is it?
The Toxteth, Glebe, NSW.
How much are tickets?
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