Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
One of the most profound discoveries in science is that simple rules often lead to complex phenomena. Emergence, the observation that more is different, is ubiquitous: one water molecule is not a fluid, one neuron is not conscious, and one DNA molecule is not alive.
Some of the most dramatic and strangest examples of emergence are found in materials made of a septillion or more quantum particles. Strange things happen. Quantum behaviours of many particles can be even weirder than the quantum physics of one particle.
At this BrisScience, UQ's Professor Ben Powell will take you on a tour of some of the strangest effects of quantum mechanics and the most surprising new physics that emerges from interactions between unimaginably large numbers of quantum particles.
Stay up to date with BrisScience and subscribe to our mailing list: https://science.uq.edu.au/event/brisscience
One of the most profound discoveries in science is that simple rules often lead to complex phenomena. Emergence, the observation that more is different, is ubiquitous: one water molecule is not a fluid, one neuron is not conscious, and one DNA molecule is not alive.
Some of the most dramatic and strangest examples of emergence are found in materials made of a septillion or more quantum particles. Strange things happen. Quantum behaviours of many particles can be even weirder than the quantum physics of one particle.
At this BrisScience, UQ's Professor Ben Powell will take you on a tour of some of the strangest effects of quantum mechanics and the most surprising new physics that emerges from interactions between unimaginably large numbers of quantum particles.
Stay up to date with BrisScience and subscribe to our mailing list: https://science.uq.edu.au/event/brisscience
