What is an event in physics? What are its attributes? This question didn’t seem very interesting until quantum physics changed the world. Is an observer or an observation necessary? How does the bizarre quantum world of probabilities turn into our everyday normal world of determined events?

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Andrew Briggs is Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his early work in acoustic microscopy and his current work in materials for quantum technologies.

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