Archive - Musings on Quantum Mechanics | Vlatko Vedral

Physics Does Not Need Observers

Jun 25 •

May 2025

Higgledy-Piggledy

Issue #52 ~ John Wheeler, one of the legends of modern physics, used to say that “everything comes from higgledy-piggledy”. This was his usual reply to…

May 31 •

April 2025

It’s Only the Sound of a Rainbow (But I Like It)

Issue #51 ~ A Zen koan is a statement (such as “what’s the sound of one hand clapping?”) meant to lead to a complete cessation of thinking. The whole…

Apr 25 •

Only the Soul Gets Teleported

Issue #50 ~ One of the inventors of quantum teleportation, the late Israeli physicist Asher Peres, was once asked by a journalist if a human being was…

Apr 2 •

March 2025

Issue #49 ~ Flat Earthers are a small but growing community of people who, as the name suggests, believe that the Earth is flat. They claim, despite…

Mar 22 •

Macroscopic Quantum Entanglement

Issue #48 ~ The discovery of quantum mechanics in 1925 was followed by a fierce debate about its meaning and implications. And this debate still rages…

Mar 14 •

February 2025

Superposing Newton and Einstein

Issue #47 ~ I’d like to tell you about a recently finished collaboration on a topic that sounds pretty simple but hides many complex issues. These…

Feb 26 •

An Argument Against Quantizing Spacetime

Issue #46 ~ Someone witty once said: “It’s hard finding a black cat in a dark room” and then added sarcastically:” …especially when there is no black…

Feb 8 •

January 2025

The Physics of Consciousness (It’s relativity, stupid)

Issue #45 ~ No one knows what consciousness is and how (or even if) the brain produces it. I’ve written about this before and I have to admit straight…

Jan 22 •

The Kochen-Specker “Paradox”

Issue #44 ~ There are many ways of describing the fundamental difference between quantum and classical physics. The main issue is that of the existence…

Jan 14 •

Kindergarten Quantum Physics

Issue #43 ~ They say Albert Einstein had his first scientific epiphany at age 4. His father showed him a compass, and the young Einstein realized that…

Jan 4 •

December 2024

Liberal Scientific Education: A battle for hearts and minds

Issue #42 ~ Some hundred and fifty years ago a great British biologist, Thomas Henry Huxley, compared life to a game of chess in his essay on "Liberal…

Dec 21, 2024 •

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