At The Edge of Uncertainty

At The Edge of Uncertainty

The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science – and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven’t stopped: there's a whole new wave of unexpected insights that are shaping the future of scientific discovery. There are the cosmological observations that might rewrite the history of the universe, novel biological ideas behind our will to live, the possibility that humans are quantum beings, that women and men need entirely different medicines, that the cosmos is a computer (with us as the programmers), that time is an illusion, and that merging humans with other species is a good idea. In this Café, Michael Brooks will explore the new – and sometimes, old – ideas taking science by surprise.

Update: note the venue of the talk is changed to the Maxwell Auditorium at the Science Centre, to accommodate demand for tickets

Dr Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a consultant at New Scientist, a magazine with over three quarters of a million readers worldwide, and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman. He is the author of At The Edge of Uncertainty, Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science and the bestselling non-fiction title, 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. He is an outreach advisor to the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.

This event is organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore in partnership with the Science Centre Singapore.