Javier Armentia (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1962) is a scientist and popularizer of science. Astrophysicist, he was a researcher and professor at the Complutense University of Madrid between 1984 and 1990 and since then he has directed the Pamplona Planetarium. He has chaired the Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking, belongs to the International Planetarium Society, and regularly collaborates with various media and digital platforms such as Naukas, the Ciencia en el Bar channel or the blog on inclusion and diversity in science CIENCIALGTBIQ. IT IS.
“I don’t think it’s possible to teleport ourselves,” Armentia told us, ” but the beauty of this is that in the process of investigating it, we can find really exciting things “
Tell us something fascinating about quantum physics
It changes reality in a tremendous way. Everything we take for granted in the classical world in which we move, in which things fall, break … you discover that nothing is true, and that alteration of reality that seems magic is in the very structure of the universe .
As an aperitif for his talk on Homo curiosus, attendees have been able to enjoy the screening of the documentary ‘The secrets of quantum physics’
The secrets of quantum physics
The history of quantum physics begins in the early 20th century, when scientists were trying to understand how light bulbs worked. This simple question led them to delve into the hidden workings of matter and the subatomic structures of the world around us.
In this context they discovered a remote world where things can be in many places at once, where chance and probability make decisions, and where reality only seems to really exist when we observe it. From the hand of Professor Jim Al-Khalili we delve into the most important, precise, and at the same time puzzling scientific theory in history: quantum physics.
