Do elementary particles exist even when they are not observed?
Where is the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds?
These are some of the big questions raised by the birth of quantum mechanics, a revolutionary theory that puts logic to the test.
The theme will be at the center on March 18th from 5pm to 6pm of 'Where is reality', the fourth of the 5 events organized by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics dedicated to high school students and all the curious.
It is precisely around the definition of reality that one of the most important cultural debates of the 20th century developed, that between the great physicists of the time, such as Schrödinger and Heisenberg, but above all between Einstein and Bohr.
A debate between extraordinary minds that has inspired profound reflections and pioneering experiments that will carry us into the new millennium, up to the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics and new technologies, protagonists of our present and future: from cryptography to quantum computers.
After the great experimental tests to which it was subjected, quantum mechanics proved to be a very fine description of reality with extraordinary consequences: even if not perceptible by our senses, quantum behaviors determine macroscopic reality, and are increasingly present in our daily lives. .
Talking about it is Paola Verrucchi, researcher at the Institute of Complex Systems of the National Research Council, the Infn and the University of Florence, who will talk about one of the most important cultural debates of the 20th century which led to a great technological revolution and to a new vision of reality and science.
She will do it too thanks to some videos in the Paradossi section of the exhibition “Quanto.
The revolution in one leap" at the Muse in Trento, and we will discover the heated and witty debate between Einstein and Schrödinger on the one hand and Bohr and the Copenhagen school on the other.
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