Excellent article and definitely worth the read if you have any interest in theoretical physics...
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.04-perimeters-heart-alex-hutchinson-neil-turok-lee-smolin/
Turok’s vision, backed by Lazaridis’s millions, offers theoretical physicists a crucial shot of confidence at a time when critics both inside and outside the field are accusing physics of losing its way, with ever more abstruse theories drifting further and further from observed reality.
On the Perimeter Institute website you can watch passed lectures!!!
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/
Also, order tickets for upcoming lectures... I wonder if UofT does something like this.. All I can think of is the once a month lectures and telescope viewings at UofT and York.
Also, I can't remember where I read it, but a really interesting idea was brought up with time as a dimension, malleable and flexible just as any other dimension. Now, I need to read a bit more about this, but, as the theory goes, time is not a constant and also began with the big bang theory. It hasn't been around forever; just as there isn't infinite space (our universe is contained and the space is defined) so is time. It has a beginning and an end, and like space, it bends. Anyway, the argument is that the rapid expansion of the universe (that worries so many re: the eventual end of the universe (zero energy, zero Kelvin, etc...)) is actually a byproduct of time slowing down... Let me rephrase, the accelerating expansion is an illusion produced by the slowing of time. Anyway, cool theory, and I'll try to post it if I find it again...
EDIT: ahh.. here it is: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/20-things-you-didn.t-know-about-time
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