Gdańskie Dni Kwantowe – światowej sławy naukowcy na Politechnice Gdańskiej (10.05) | Politechnika Gdańska

Beginning in the late 1960's quantum phenomena, previously viewed mainly as a nuisance for information processing, led to new kinds of cryptography and computation, and ultimately to a reconceptualization of the nature of information whose consequences for informatics and for fundamental questions like the nature of black holes and spacetime, are still being discovered, and the whose strange beauty, though it eluded Einstein, is within the grasp of any educated person.

Connections between physics and technological invention and aspects of human life that seem far from science are both unexpected and unexpectedly common. And rather than flowing one way - from physics to gadgets - the connections form an intricate web, linking all aspects of human culture, in ways that frustrate our convenient compartmentalisations and interventions aimed at promoting technology transfer. I will discuss this theme not abstractly but with examples, ranging from music to the colour of gold, and explain how quantum technology helps me do quantum physics.