Calling Alain Aspect, 2022 physics laureate
Nobel Prize Conversations
English - October 04, 2022 11:42 - 8 minutes - 15.2 MBEducation Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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“The conclusion is, yes, quantum mechanics resists all possible attacks!” — Alain Aspect was trying to find the limit of quantum mechanics, but, as he says in this call with Adam Smith, “I didn’t find it!”. Recorded just after he had received news of his Nobel Prize, this conversation captures his thoughts about the place of his work in the long history of quantum mechanics, the need for constant questioning and reflection, and how he gets his head around the weirdness of quantum entanglement.
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