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Quantum physics
We approach quantum physics from its dilemmas and paradoxes, those that have led us to question the foundations of our knowledge. A space where quantum theory becomes crucial for rethinking the relationship between science and the humanities.
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The Quantum Sense
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics highlights the need for nonsensical humour to give sense to the world: from G. K. Chesterton at his sharpest to the Douglas Adams at his most inquisitive.
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The Quantum Sense II: Paradoxes
Marta García-Matos
In the history of quantum physics, three types of paradoxes exist: those that challenge classical physics, those that challenge intuition and common sense, and those that challenge quantum physics itself.
“Reading about quantum theory often feels a little like reading about anthropology: it tells of a far-off land where the customs are strange. We’re comfortable enough about how our world behaves; it’s this other one that’s ‘weird’.”
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The Quantum Sense III: Quantum Information
Marta García-Matos
The change to the quantum model is gentler if physics is considered from the viewpoint of information
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The Quantum Sense IV: Why?
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics questions several of the intuitive conceptions that we construct following daily interaction with the physical world to make sense of it. One of the most profound is causality, because quantum physics shows that an event can exist without any cause.
“I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.”
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Feynman and Zorthian: a Third-Culture Friendship
Guillermo Orts-Gil
The history of friendship between physicist and artist taught the scientist about the importance of experimentation and shows that science, art and creativity do not fight but rather enhance each other.
“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking, the most fruitful developments frequently take place a those points where two different lines of thought meet.”
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Storytelling
The Elementary Bestiary
Tamara Vázquez Schröder
Rather than giving you a standard introduction to the modern formulation of particle physics, we are going to take a historical approach.
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CERN: Scientific Dissemination without Frontiers
Delma Rodríguez
How Uruguay managed to cut down the distances with state-of-the-art Particle Physics research.