Date/Time
Thursday
14 Nov 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Book Talk

Adam Becker
Author, Journalist, and Astrophysicist 

Quantum physics is arguably the most successful scientific theory ever devised. It explains an enormous variety of natural phenomena to an extraordinary degree of accuracy  — everything from semiconductors to the Sun itself. Yet there is a problem: it’s unclear what this immensely fruitful theory says about reality. What is going on in the world of quantum physics? Why does “measurement” play a special role in the theory? Is it really impossible to talk about what’s happening to atoms and subatomic particles when we’re not looking at them?