Fernández Vidal: "Modern physicists know that what we are seeing is not reality, but a shadow of this, if there is an objective reality"



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## Fernández Vidal: "Modern physicists know that what we are seeing is not reality, but a shadow of this, if there is an objective reality"

04/12/2013 |
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Sonia Fernández Vidal, doctor in Optics and Quantum Information at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, was in charge of opening the cycle of popular science “Somos” organized by the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I. Under the title “Are we stardust?”, Fernández Vidal explained in her lecture the impact that the paradigm shift from classical physics to quantum physics had on the way of understanding the world of science in the early twentieth century.

The researcher gave an overview of the major figures of classical physics, such as Galileo, who established the scientific method; Newton, who provided theories of mechanics, or Maxwell, who explained the electromagnetic forces. “The view of the world that classical physics had is what we call *mechanism*. Everything was ordered and determined under rules”,   
Fernández Vidal said. Before this conception of the cosmos, quantum physics was born in the early twentieth century. Then, experimenting with subatomic particles, scientists realized that the results were altered due to the fact that the experiment was being observed.

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