Date/Time
Thursday
22 Mar 2018
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Pegasus Books Downtown
Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event
Adam Becker
Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology
Adam Becker presents the untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe. Join Becker for a discussion and book signing of “What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics” in conversation with Anil Ananthaswamy, author of “The Man Who Wasn’t There.”
Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity’s finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. “What Is Real?” is the gripping story of this battle of ideas and the courageous scientists who dared to stand up for truth.
Adam Becker is a science writer with a PhD in astrophysics. He has written for the BBC and New Scientist, and is a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley’s Office for History of Science and Technology.