Quantum Mechanics and String Theory | Gerard 't Hooft, Cumrun Vafa, and more
225Leading physics discuss quantum and string theory.
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Tim Maudlin is professor of philosophy at New York University and a world-leader in the field of philosophy of physics. He is the author of the recently published Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory and made his name studying the mysterious behaviour of entangled quantum particles. Maudlin warns that we should be wary of physical theories that contradict our direct impression of reality, especially when it comes to the nature of time.
George Ellis is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Chiara Marletto is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Materials Department, University of Oxford.
Gerard 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.
Lev Vaidman is a physicist and Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for his theoretical work in the area of fundamentals of quantum mechanics, which includes quantum teleportation, the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester, and the weak values.
Michael Duff is a theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist of supergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.
Cumrun Vafa is a string theorist and educator, and a professor of physics at Harvard University.
David Tong is a professor of theoretical physics at DAMTP in Cambridge, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and joint recipient of the 2008 Adams Prize.
Johnathan Ellis is a British theoretical physicist who is currently Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London.
James Ladyman is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK. He is co-editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Laura Mersini-Houghton is a cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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