quantum with four hands
A lecture narrated by Julien Bobroff and illustrated live with Lisa Dehove’s object manipulations. Four chapters that shed light on the basic concepts of quantum physics, using a good old-fashioned overhead projector and colorful, poetic, and surprising objects. You’ll learn everything from wave packet reduction to entanglement, and you’ll leave with your head full of images!
The talk
The objects
In addition to the printed transparencies that usually accompanied the overhead projectors, the conference objects used a whole host of heterogeneous materials: rice, semolina, brass and glass tubes, performance gelatins, cardboard, magnets, sweets, lenses, etc. Chosen for their shape or their transparency, they took the scientific discourse into a teeming, colorful and poetic universe, while allowing quantum theory to be explained with images and metaphors that were both striking and precise.
The chapters
The lecture is divided into four chapters. Each chapter includes two parts: one to explain a fundamental principle of quantum physics, and the second to discuss a recent research article related to that principle. Mat pockets allow you to arrange and organize all the objects and transparencies to be handled for each section. A color code and numbers help you navigate the lecture sequence and the order of the actions to be performed.
Making of
This project was conceived by Lisa Dehove during a residency with the Physics Reimagined team.
Object design, scenography, and manipulations: Lisa Dehove
Physics: Julien Bobroff
Many thanks to Lou-Andreas and Julien Bobroff for their support and to the entire Physics Reimagined team for their welcome and generosity: Camille, Iona, Anaïs, Frédéric, Pauline, and Léonore.
Thanks also to the Césure team who allowed us to organize the first performance of the conference: Esther Destres, Valentin Gandolfi, and Alexandra Petrov.
This project benefited from the support of Quantum-Saclay and the “Physics Reimagined” Chair of the Paris-Saclay University Foundation, supported by the Air Liquide Group and Crédit Agricole – CIB. It was carried out in the premises and with the technical resources of the Educational Experimentation Center of the Villebon – Georges Charpak Institute.
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