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Time-delocalised variables violating causal inequalities

A piece accessible to a broader public on collaborative work between Julian Wechs and Ognyan Oreshkov  (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Cyril Branciard (CNRS) has been posted on several different portals. Read it at the following links phys.org, eurekalert, alphagalileo, ULB press A team of researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the French …

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What is Real? A discussion on Quantum Physics and Buddhist philosophy

https://youtu.be/sPSMTNjwHZw Title: What is real? Nagarjuna’s Middle Way. A discussion on Quantum physics and Buddhist philosophy with Barry Kerzin and Carlo Rovelli.  Time and date: 29 of October 2021, 4pm CEST (10am EDT) How to join: Please register for the zoom session using this link https://oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u6p9Fpi1SJ6A7z4aXRQs1Q . The registration confirmation email will contain the zoom link and password. Abstract: Two interlocutors with a common fascination …

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Helgoland, new book by Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli has published his new popularised science book, which opens with a scene discussing physics with other QISS members at Lamma Island, during our day off at the QISS@HongKong launching conference of the QISS project. penguin.co.uk/books/…/helgoland

Chiara Marletto featured at The Guardian

Chiara Marletto has been featured in the guardian,Chiara Marletto is a research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research is in theoretical physics – especially quantum computation, thermodynamics and information theory. Her broader interests include theoretical biology, epistemology and Italian literature. The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land …

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New Scientist — Why Quantum is Relative

Quantum weirdness isn’t weird – if we accept objects don’t exist We can grasp the truth about the quantum world, as long as we abandon our most cherished assumption about what’s real and what’s not Further details here

Science et Vie — The whole universe would have originated from a Planck star

Where does our Universe come from? To this fundamental question, if any, the physicist Carlo Rovelli provides an answer based on a theory that attempts to unify Einstein’s general relativity with quantum mechanics: it would come from a Planck star, a tiny star born during a rebound … from a previous universe. Further details here. …

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