All the world’s a stage: the quantum mechanical backstage of reality
The St Petersburg University Representative Office in Spain cordially invites you to an online lecture "All the world’s a stage: the quantum mechanical backstage of reality", which continues our new lecture series "Physicists in search for unity in nature". The lecture will be given by Anton Sheikin, theoretical physicist and associate professor at SPbU.
"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely Players": for five centuries, Shakespeare’s words have served as a metaphor for our lives. At the time, this metaphor was popular not only with poets but also with scientists, who saw the cosmos as a stage, a grand performance to which man was fortunate enough to be an unwilling spectator.
The immensity of the cosmos and the imperfection of observational methods led the thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries to ask questions that physics was only able to answer in the 20th century with the advent of quantum mechanics.
Are there similarities between the laws of our reality and stage machinery? Which works of fiction have demonstrated the imperfect way in which we perceive the world? Can these works in turn help us understand the mechanisms of quantum mechanics? This and more will be discussed in our next lecture.
Lecturer
Anton Sheikin is a senior lecturer at the SPbU Department of High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics. Winner of the 2021 Russian Society "Knowledge" Award in the "Teacher — Educator of the Year" category, Sheikin teaches physics and popularises science. His research interests focus on gravity and geometric methods in physics.
The lecture will be streamed online in Russian with simultaneous translation into Spanish as part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of SPbU — Russia’s first university.