Portals to a New Reality - Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics

The situation is much like that in 1890, right before Planck, Einstein and Bohr blew the roof off Newtonian physics. As Vlatko Vedral argues in Portals to a New Reality, this suggests we are on the brink of a new revolution.Vedral first explains the state of the art of our current understanding when it comes to quantum mechanics and general relativity. Then he shows how quantum information theory has opened up radical new avenues, giving us a series of extraordinary experiments that could upend physics. They can sound very strange--one essentially involves entangling a human with Schrdinger''s cat--but they lay bare the elements of our theories that are particularly problematic, such as the widespread belief that nothing truly exists unless it is observed.

At present these take the form of fascinating thought experiments, but nothing, save inertia and a lack of ambition, stands in our way. This revolution has been a century in the making--the time has finally arrived to rewrite our understanding of the universe.<>

Product details

• Authors: Vlatko Vedral, Vedral Vlatko
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2025
• EAN: 9780241803059
• ISBN: 978-0-241-80305-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Philosophy of Science, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Relativity physics, Information theory