This Monday I hosted this month’s Royal Institution cafe scientifique as usual. Our guest was my editor at WIRED - Manjit Kumar, who came and talked to us about his book “Quantum.” The audience was stunned into mild shock by the mind twisting nature of quantum physics. I wish Manjit and I knew more about the detailed science of the topic, but Manjit focusses on the history and people, and my main recollection was of taking a Quantum Physics course and finding the maths horrifyingly esoteric and removed from reality (or at least what I recognise as reality). You can see more details of the event here.

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