We’re on the brink of a revolution in quantum theory, one that could see the stuff of science fiction become the reality of our future.
Join US academic Paul Davies and Oxford don Vlatko Vedral for an entertaining and awe-inspiring journey through the past, present and future of quantum mechanics and physics, and learn how it could impact every aspect of our lives.
In Quantum 2.0, renowned scientist and author Davies – who has an asteroid named after him – tells the gripping story of how a radical new theory of nature, which became known as quantum mechanics, burst upon the modern world, and how today we are on the cusp of the second great quantum technology revolution. Quantum 2.0 takes readers from basic concepts to the cutting edge, which includes new tools such as quantum computers, quantum cryptography and the quantum internet. Davies is a regents' professor of physics and director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University.
Vedral’s Portals to a New Reality argues that we’re on the brink of a new reality in science, explaining how quantum information theory has led to a series of extraordinary and strange-sounding experiments that could upend physics, and rewrite our understanding of the universe. Vedral is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, known for both his theoretical and experimental work on quantum information.
Both authors will be talking to the multi-award-winning science broadcaster Caroline Steel.
