When I first studied quantum, I was really really confused.
It’s counter-intuitive logic and strange propositions seemed baffling and meaningless.
Like high school algebra before, I didn’t see the point learning about another system that had nothing to do with my day-to-day life.
But gradually over time I realised that quantum mechanics influence everything, things already in my life:
– laptops = semi-conductors
– lasers = CD players
– energy = nuclear…etc, etc.
This year, during UNESCO’s Quantum Science and Technology 2025, I’ll be actively embracing more quantum confusion and strangeness.
I want to caress quantum’s biggest mystery and ask:
Do we actually live in a multiverse?
Like quantum or religion, I used to think the multiverse wasn’t relevant to my life. But after my sister, Sally, passed in 2019, I found comfort imagining her still existing across these extra-dimensions.
So what does the multiverse looks like?
And will future quantum computers finally provide concrete evidence of these alternative worlds? What does it mean for life (and death) if we exists across different realms simultaneously? Will it ever be possible to travel across dimensions? And does our unconscious mind already provide this bridge?
This year my practice will grapple with these themes while remaining very personal, intimate and embodied.
And by wrestling with these perhaps confusing, unanswerable questions, I hope to generate new narratives about what is possible in the universe, inspiring audiences to feel awe, magic and renewed connection in these dark, polarising times.
