Sean Carroll, Ph.D.,Physicist, Caltech: Demonstrating the process of entanglement and the relationship between gravity and black holes at a foundry in Los Angeles.
Jamey Marth, Ph.D., Director, Center for Director, U. of California, Santa Barbara: Demonstrates how to create anti-viral drugs using CRE recombinase as he cuts down a forest of DNA created from loops of colored paper.
Judah Levine at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) oversees the Internet Time Service, which keeps precise time for all the mechanisms that require this, like computers, power grids, and GPS.
Tom Weiler, a physics professor at Vanderbilt University, says that all particles we?ve measured until now cannot leave our three-dimensional space because they carry a weak, electric, or strong charge. However, a very special particle called the Higgs Singlet does not have any charge, and so may travel like gravity, into any extra dimensions. The particle, if it exists, would be produced in standard interactions through a phenomenon called ?Higgs double-singlet mixing.? The flat straightaway on this toy racetrack represents the three familiar dimensions ? and the loop-de-loop stands-in for an extra dimension.
Yuri Gorby, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic University: Demonstrating the theory that the ocean ecosystem is a living super organism by setting up a metaphoric network of electric lights.
John Learned, a Physicist at the University of Hawaii, thinks alien messages may be within our reach. The way a high-energy neutrino interacts with an electron is similar to what happens when music meets a wine glass.
MIT Cosmologist Max Tegmark ascribes to the Many Worlds idea in which there are clones of you in other parallel worlds. The only way to prove this is to never die. He figures there is a one in quintillion chance this could happen, so his chances are slightly better than zero.