June 2021

Carlo Rovelli, QICI Distinguished Lecture (Wide Public Lecture at HKU, 300 attendants), What is time? Further details here Watch Carlo’s TED talk What is time?  

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

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. …

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

The French journal Pour la Science, is re-publishing as a special supplement a popular science article co-written by Rovelli on the foundations of Quantum Theory.  Read the article here (in French).

An international team of experts, led by the University of Nottingham, have demonstrated that only quantum and not classical gravity could be used to create a certain informatic ingredient that is needed for quantum computation. Their research “Non-Gaussianity as a signature of a quantum theory of gravity” has been published today in PRX Quantum. Please see the article …

phys.org: Testing Quantum Gravity with Non-Gaussianity Read More »

Carlo Rovelli has been interviewed by the Financial Times on his new book Helgoland. See the article here.

Quantum gravity might soon be tested in the lab, thanks to a new analysis from our nodes in the UK, France and Hong Kong. Drawing on advances in quantum information science, the researchers have found that if gravity is fundamentally quantum rather than classical it must generate a signature known as non-Gaussianity. To look for …

PhysicsWorld: Quantum gravity could be tested using ultracold atoms Read More »