Name: Space-time and Quantum Mechanics
Start: 2016-05-24T
End: 2016-05-24T
Location: The Yorkshire Grey

We all have heard of the uncertainty principle, but why is it really important? And what does it tell us about the structure of space and time? During this evening Professor Fring will explain in two talks the ideas of Quantum mechanics in relation to space and time. The event will be in the first floor room, there will be games and special Pint of Science and Mendeley goodies to be won!

Are there holes in space and time?

Andreas Fring (Professor of Mathematical Physics)

The question of what space and time really is has preoccupied early physicists since the. At a very small scale space and time can be explored by employing quantum mechanics. However, quantum physics works in it own very unexpected and counterintuitive way. As Niels Bohr famously said "If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet or you must be drunk." In this talk I argue that noncommutative versions of Heisenbergs's uncertainty relations suggest that space and time are not a continuous structures but actually have holes in them.

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