Jahrhundertsprung - mit Quantenforschern im Gespräch

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MVHS Bildungszentrum Einsteinstr. 28


Two physicists discuss the ghosts of the past and show how much the new theories have revolutionized our world view. Prof. Dr. Harald Weinfurter (LMU) and Dr. Moritz Dorband (MPQ) discuss on stage.

In the 1920s, the ideas of a few physicists went beyond the conventional world view. Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg explored the interior of atoms and asked: What is light? Their search led to the quantum. They discovered a world in which nothing is continuous but packed into the tiniest of parcels; a world of probabilities and uncertainty, in which something can be a wave and a particle at the same time. Einstein's famous saying “God does not play dice” shows the difficulties he himself had with it.

The event will be in German. Find details and registration at MVHS website.