Brian Cox: ‘Scientists aren’t priests of knowledge. They’re like plumbers’
Summer's here, students are heading off - what are you working on?
The last paper I published was a really theoretical paper with three colleagues and it was stimulated by a popular book I wrote with Jeff Forshaw about quantum mechanics. [There is] this strange feature of quantum theory that it appears to not care about Einstein's theory of relativity - it does care about it but it appears that you can do things at some place in the universe and in principle the whole universe seems to respond. We got interested in using all the modern machinery of quantum field theory [to ask] how does that play out, how does it actually work? What stops you from doing strange things and influencing the whole universe from your little position here on Earth? We are still working on it. We've published one of the papers; there are another couple in the pipeline.
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