Bard Professor Paul Cadden-Zimansky Interviewed on the Quantum Spin Podcast

Paul Cadden-Zimansky, associate professor of physics at Bard College, was interviewed on the Quantum Spin podcast by host Veronica Combs about his work as a physicist, as well as his role as a member of a committee convened by the Physical Society to coordinate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, a global initiative that will celebrate 100 years of quantum mechanics in 2025. The year-long initiative will celebrate the profound impacts of quantum science on technology, culture, and our understanding of the natural world. “Quantum mechanics over this past hundred years has become the central theory for our understanding of the physical world,” Cadden-Zimansky told Combs. “It is our best physical theory, it is our most well tested physical theory, it applies to things that aren’t just small, you can see effects of quantum mechanics on galactic scales. And so, I think most physicists have an understanding of that—they didn’t appreciate that when they first constructed quantum mechanics.” He continues, “I think over the course of a hundred years, the story has kind of been, ‘No actually, this is really this grand framework for understanding everything around us.’”

Post Date: 04-09-2024