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Author Talk Featuring Tom Williams

October 20, 2016

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library

Emily Cook

"The Secret life of Schrödinger’s Cat" …in which the author talks about Discrete Quantum Mechanics, a book bristling with formulae, using no bristles and a minimum of equations. A brief look at the history of the development of quantum theory will illuminate two distinct formal approaches to the subject and their ultimate unification. One of these approaches, that of Werner Heisenberg, justifies the use of “discrete” in the book’s title, and motivates the topics it covers. The Heisenberg approach and its modern applications will be discussed with help from the spooky cat conceived by Erwin Schrödinger.

A talk by Emeritus Physics Professor, H. Thomas Williams. Refreshments provided. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Event held in Northen Auditorium / Leyburn Library.