Café & Kosmos on October 21, 2025
100 years ago, physicists such as Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Born fundamentally revolutionized our understanding of physics with the establishment of quantum mechanics. Although the quantum world often contradicts our everyday intuition, it remains relevant to this day for describing reality.
Its principles can still be found in modern physics: from our understanding of elementary particles to research into the Big Bang. Starting with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Sara Ditsch and Elia Mazzucchelli from the Max Planck Institute for Physics show how quantum mechanics developed over the last century and its role today in quantum field theory, which enables us to describe the fundamental building blocks of our universe.