Call it a Marvel-ous entanglement: some of the nation’s leading experts in quantum science and multiverse games gathered Wednesday night in downtown Chicago with the general public for an advanced screening of Marvel’s newest film, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” followed by a discussion about quantum science on film and in real life.
The event, hosted in collaboration with Marvel Studios, the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, UChicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), offered guests the opportunity to dive deeper into the fantastical science behind Ant-Man’s newest adventure and learn about the impressive research happening right here in Chicago, a national hub for quantum science and engineering. Guests who arrived early were treated to an exclusive hands-on demo of the Quantum Casino, a UChicago STAGE Lab experiment in science-inspired game design that introduces players to quantum physics in an accessible way.
Quantum information science and engineering is dedicated to understanding how our world works on the smallest scale: the subatomic level. Electricity, magnetism, light—all the phenomena we interact with on a daily basis are driven by principles found in quantum mechanics.
Among the panelists was David Awschalom, professor at the UChicago’s Pritzker Molecular Engineering, senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange.
“One of the most entertaining aspects of tonight is that we’re all getting a chance to explore inner-space,” said Awschalom. “Quantum science operates on rules that seem strange and counterintuitive, and yet we’re making great strides to untangle them every day. Quantum technology is being developed right now around the world. Here in Chicago there is a quantum network running beneath us, creating and distributing quantum entanglement across the suburbs, transmitting quantum states tens of thousands of times per second.”
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This story was first published by Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.
