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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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Eurekalert.org has posted an accessible to a wider public piece on a collaborative work between Jonathan Barrett, Quantum Group of Oxford, and Ognyan Oreshkov, Free University of Brussels. Read by following this link. The paper concerned is titled Cyclic Quantum Causal Models and is published at Nature Communications.  Technical abstract of the paper: Causal reasoning is …

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Constructor theory is a relatively nascent idea in fundamental physics that proposes to underlie all other currently known theories, not to mention those yet to be known, and to solve problems across a host of fields in science and beyond. Logan Chipkin joins Oxford physicist and constructor theorist Chiara Marletto to discuss what constructor theory is, …

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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 [email protected] launching conference of the QISS project. penguin.co.uk/books/…/helgoland

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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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 »