Talks

This presentation will introduce the counter-intuitive quantum concept of entanglement and help to explain it via the ‘entanglement game’, a hands-on interactive activity that has been successfully tested with a number of Grade 12 classes. It will also introduce the emerging field of quantum technology within which researchers are harnessing some of the strange features of quantum theory to build new powerful 21st–century technologies such as quantum computers, quantum teleporters and quantum secret codes.

This presentation will introduce the counter-intuitive quantum concept of entanglement and help to explain it via the ‘entanglement game’, a hands-on interactive activity that has been successfully tested with a number of Grade 12 classes. It will also introduce the emerging field of quantum technology within which researchers are harnessing some of the strange features of quantum theory to build new powerful 21st–century technologies such as quantum computers, quantum teleporters and quantum secret codes.

Currently, most physicists believe that only a small fraction of all the matter and energy in the universe is visible and can be seen through our most powerful telescopes. The remaining majority of the universe is thought to consist of elusive dark matter and dark energy, two substances about which we know very little. This presentation will explore the evidence in supporting the dark matter and dark energy theories and discuss some of their implications for how our universe will evolve.