“Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics. ” a physicist bellowed into a microphone one evening in June, and the cavernous banquet hall of Hamburg’s Hotel Atlantic erupted into cheers and applause. Some 300 quantum physicists had traveled from around the world to attend the opening reception of a six-day conference marking the centennial of the most successful theory in physics.
Some 300 quantum physicists had traveled from around the world to attend the opening reception of a six-day conference marking the centennial of the most successful theory in physics.