The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.

Five, four, three, two, one. Well, welcome everybody out there and watching this live or perhaps watching it recorded. I am Brian Keating and I am the

Associate Director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination at the University of California, San Diego, and today, also a physics professor, and today I'm delighted to be joined with James Gates, who is a professor at Brown University.

He is the director, he is a Brown Theoretical Physics Center director in Brown University,

which is my alma mater where I got my PhD.

Oh, so many years ago and remember with great fondness and I only wish that he had been there when I was there maybe

I would have had a different career and maybe could have advanced to experimental physics

in my absence but but today we're here to talk with Professor Gates about his new book, which is called

Proving Einstein Right, and some aspects of the continual quest that physicists such as

Einstein and all the way up through lectures on

gravitation by by Fineman and others leading up to Jim and Stephen Hawking

have really been compelled to understand what is the nature of gravity and how

enticing and how fascinating gravity is and I wonder given all the

contributions you've made in physics especially in super symmetry, you know, in some ways really sprang from your brain in the

1970s while you were writing the first degree on that PhD thesis on that at

MIT and then had so much influence on physics and in some sense even though you're the father

sometimes I joke you're kind of denying paternity in some sense you know that

you're you're maybe not as comfortable with some of the claims made about

symmetry. So I hope to get into all this. We'll try to keep it general so people

will get interested and get to know Jim's work if they don't already know it already.

And so first I want to welcome you back to San Diego.

Well thank you Brian.

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