QUANTUM MECHANICS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND IMAGERY

Vincenzo Barone, docente di Fisica teorica e Storia della fisica Università del Piemonte Orientale

Elena Joli, insegnante di Fisica, science editor, autrice

Giuseppe Mussardo, docente di Fisica teorica SISSA

Quantum mechanics is an admirable creation of the human intellect, a scientific theory that has not only subverted the entire corpus of physics but also profoundly altered our sociocultural environment. A powerful and elegant tool, it still does not fail to surprise for its strangeness to everyday experience. To describe it, we need a new language, new words. That is why quantum mechanics offers us not only a new vision of the world but also a trove of suggestions that are well suited to contaminate literature, theater and philosophy.