Precision Predictions

Abstract

Precision predictions combined with precise measurements are a major tool in sharpening our understanding of the fundamental laws underlying microscopic as well as macroscopic systems. Here, I present a few remarkable examples covering the fields of nuclear, particle and astrophysics.

Comments: invited talk, first Joint ECFA-NuPECC-ApPEC Seminar, Paris, October 14-16, 2019 (JENAS-2019), short write-up, commissioned article for Nuclear Physics News