Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/22/2023
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Arch Auditorium (Room 208)
Categories
The Center for Particle Cosmology presents The Elon Musk Public Lecture featuring Sean Carroll.
One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which observational results can only be predicted probabilistically rather than with certainty. Yet, after decades in which the theory has been successfully used on an everyday basis, most physicists would agree that we still don’t truly understand what it means. I will talk about the source of this puzzlement, and explain why an increasing number of physicists are led to an apparently astonishing conclusion: that the world we experience is constantly branching into di erent versions, representing the di erent possible outcomes of quantum measurements. This could have important consequences for quantum gravity and the emergence of spacetime.
This event is co-hosted with the Department of Physics and Astronomy.