Presented By: Saturday Morning Physics
Saturday Morning Physics | The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
Professor Sean Carroll, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy (Johns Hopkins University)
One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which observational results can only be predicted probabilistically rather than with certainty. Yet, after decades in which the theory has been successfully used on an everyday basis, most physicists would agree that we still don't truly understand what it means. I will talk about the source of this puzzlement and explain why an increasing number of physicists are led to an apparently astonishing conclusion: that the world we experience constantly branches into different versions, representing the different possible outcomes of quantum measurements. This could have important consequences for quantum gravity and the emergence of spacetime.
The event will be in-person and also live-streamed on YouTube: https://myumi.ch/RpAG2
The event will be in-person and also live-streamed on YouTube: https://myumi.ch/RpAG2
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