October 10 - Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect

Presented by Paul Halpern

Professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Saturday, October 10, 2020 

1:30 pm (Virtual talk via computer)

The link to view the live stream of this talk is https://youtu.be/-fdIsyS0zF0

In this talk, Paul Halpern will discuss his new book, Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect.  Synchronicity is a popular science book about the search for connections in nature, from the debates of the ancient Greeks to modern quantum teleportation experiments, centering on the dialogue between Nobel physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychoanalyst Carl Jung in the mid-20th century.  Together they explored a concept called "synchronicity," a weird phenomenon they thought could link events without causes.

Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and the author of sixteen popular science books, including The Quantum Labyrinth and Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a Fulbright scholarship, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.