Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different - with Philip Ball

Quantum physics has a reputation as one of the most obscure and impenetrable subjects in science.
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Philip Ball will talk about what quantum theory really means – and what it doesn’t – and how its counterintuitive principles create the world we experience.
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Philip Ball is a freelance science writer. He worked previously at Nature for over 20 years, first as an editor for physical sciences (for which his brief extended from biochemistry to quantum physics and materials science) and then as a Consultant Editor. His writings on science for the popular press have covered topical issues ranging from cosmology to the future of molecular biology.
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