[Music]
today I’d like to give you a glimpse
into the future now I’m not a mystic Meg
or a time traveler
instead I’m quite the opposite I’m a
scientist to be precise I’m a cording to
a scientist as such I don’t use a
crystal ball or a time machine to see
into the future instead I use quantum
mechanics I study the basic building
blocks of matter and through this I see
a new future a future with alternative
technologies that will change to all of
our worlds completely and that
fascinates me but more of that a little
bit later I think I should start with a
little discussion on the piece of change
that we see in our world it’s phenomenal
the changes in society brought about by
technology over the last 90 years has
been bigger than in the previous 1
million stop for a minute to think about
that that’s the equivalent of one year
equating to about 15,000 in each of the
last 100 years of time one year
equivalent to 15,000 that’s a phenomenal
rate of change analog technology changed
my parents life with televisions and
radios digital technology is changing
all of our lives with computers
smartphones and of course the internet
and if you look at just the last 10
years ecommerce big data global
communications a social media what a
phenomenal phenomenal rate of change the
radio to 38 years to reach 50 million
users the television 14 the internet for
the iPod 3 and Facebook clocked up 200
million users and its first year that
piece of change is so fast it’s almost
instantaneous but as a quantum physicist
I see a new horizon a new change a new
series of technologies and they’re based
on quantum quantum technologies so I’m
sure some of you are wondering what
quantum zolab a is it Quantum of Solace
is it the quantum leap well for the
Bourne fans it’s nothing to do with that
and the quantum leaps only a little bit
closer to the truth
quantum comes from the Latin words
meaning how much and quantum physics
means how much probability so let’s
think of a probability as a coin toss if
we reflect a coin it lands in our hands
it’s either a head or a tail but what
happens when the coin spinning it’s up
in the air it’s a head a Teel a head or
a tail we don’t know what the outcomes
going to be until it lands and hits the
day quantum physics is a little bit like
the spinning coin in coin some things
can be different seats there could be
two seats at the same time just like a
head in the tail and nothing is there
until they come as observed if you look
at this on the tiny scale we take an
atom here with its nuclear tray at the
center and we’ve got all the electrons
circulating around our atom we can’t see
precisely we’re on a query electron is
all we know is any particular given
moment in time probably here it will be
so if we think think that through if
this nucleus is here in Glasgow the
electron is probably orbiting it
somewhere in Glasgow but it’s all about
probabilities there’s a small chance
that it’s in Okinawa on the other side
of the world or even in Mars that’s a
difficult thing to to comprehend doesn’t
it but that’s what quantum physics tells
us as we look around the auditorium here
we see chairs walls people
everything seems physical
everything seems real everything seems
governed by the laws of physics but when
we look at this microscopic level it’s
all just probabilities so all of these
things that we take to be real they’re
real they are rather than being the laws
of physics they’re just very likely
probabilities so this weird
understanding of coin some it’s
important because at least laces look at
the world in a different way and once we
do that it lets us start to use quantum
physics to invent things coin soms got a
few tricks up its sleeve
take this this example is weave particle
duality we think of something like an
atom to be solid to be like a blow of
all but it can also be like a wave
perhaps a little bit like the ripples
when you throw a stone into the water
imagine you’re there you’re throwing a
stone into the water the ripples reply
somebody else comes along and joint you
throws a second stone the patterns
become more complex they may urge they
interfere with each other the same thing
happens at atomic level and that lets us
know builds device is called atom
interferometers where we can take the
waves of individual atoms and use them
to sense what’s happening to individual
atom we might want to look at it effect
of electricity magnetism mass we can use
these electrons individually to start
and meet these measures of our world and
our universe a second strange trick the
coin has up its sleeve is known as
entanglement Einstein called this spooky
action at a distance two atoms one here
one here they become entangled they
behave as an assembler so something
happens to this item it happens to that
atom think of our tossing coins as a
state we could have one atom a head or a
tail or heel a head or a tail another
head a teal a head or a tail we built it
up coin by coin
the probabilities and and the
possibilities growing exponentially and
is this exponential growth and the
entanglement that leads to the ability
for us to use atoms as quantum
information base we can use these atoms
as the best to build future computers
the potential is exponential the atoms
are tiny and we can we can drive the
entanglement across many many atoms so
that’s probably enough of the sayings
for now I promise that we take a look
into the future and a glimpse into the
future of what technology meat brain so
let’s take a look not into the not too
distant future and let’s take a look at
a new glass cool let’s call it a quantum
glass cool so imagine that your grand is
not well she’s going to the hospital she
needs a scan but instead of getting
instead of getting into an MRI machine
with all the claustrophobia the stress
the noise the expense she pulls on the
heart but it’s a special heart it’s a
coin some heart
it’s got millions of pixels they can
read the electromagnetic waves and say
to our brain so that the doctors can see
our health our brain health and it’s all
reported real-time a much simpler more
elegant solution but then maybe there’s
this coin some cap could become a
thought collecting cap what would you
use out for well imagine my wife tells
me to pick up some Brussels sprouts at
the shop the cap catches my thought
then HD I’m coming out with a short edit
room remains me about the Brussels
sprouts put them in the bag and I’ll
leave the shop job done and stared off
as normal with a bowl of wine and a
sense of foregoing something the cat can
lead to answer all different forms of
sensing for Life Sciences in many many
different ways but meanwhile back at the
hospital the scientists are fired up the
first coin some computer in Glasgow
and that quantum computer is able to
make enormous numbers of calculations
millions upon millions upon millions of
more calculations in the standard
computer and we’re able to model the way
the proteins fold edges DNA work how did
the genes transfer from one generation
to another I know what they’re starting
to do is the starting to work how these
genes can create pathways to cure
disease cancers Parkinson’s so quantum
computers would literally change the way
that healthcare works in the world we’re
able to hospital now
granny’s gone home or quantum hats got
rolled safe again I know what we’ve done
as we move down into there the damps of
the foster clade and what we’re looking
at now is a submarine this is the first
submarine to use quantum positioning
we’re using these tiny tiny coins
mechanical forces and our atoms to send
with incredible precision the exact
possession of the submarine the
possessions that we can create our
thousand times better than any other
technology and of course it’s all
self-contained so we don’t have to go to
the surface for GPS if we commit this
technology smaller we can use it in
planes cars even in cell phones at that
point we then have completely autonomous
positioning see if simple reliable
positioning and our quantum or submarine
is in connection with Glasgow’s climate
center it too has a new quantum computer
the quantum computer is able to to
measure the weather and model the
weather forecast with pinpoint accuracy
over pinpoints of time but not only that
is able to do more than that it’s able
to take in data on pollution agriculture
human use of land all these types of
parameters and it can feed those into
the computer so that we can learn
outcomes to improve an environment to
improve our city to improve our world so
hope today I’ve had the chance to give
you a little bit of an insight into this
quantum world so let you think a little
bit use your imagination about how it’s
going to change our society to think of
it about how some of the societal
changes rain health environment and
safety will change the future of all our
lives it’s going to be an exciting time
for coin some of pure quantum leap thank
you
[Applause]
today I’d like to give you a glimpse
into the future now I’m not a mystic Meg
or a time traveler
instead I’m quite the opposite I’m a
scientist to be precise I’m a cording to
a scientist as such I don’t use a
crystal ball or a time machine to see
into the future instead I use quantum
mechanics I study the basic building
blocks of matter and through this I see
a new future a future with alternative
technologies that will change to all of
our worlds completely and that
fascinates me but more of that a little
bit later I think I should start with a
little discussion on the piece of change
that we see in our world it’s phenomenal
the changes in society brought about by
technology over the last 90 years has
been bigger than in the previous 1
million stop for a minute to think about
that that’s the equivalent of one year
equating to about 15,000 in each of the
last 100 years of time one year
equivalent to 15,000 that’s a phenomenal
rate of change analog technology changed
my parents life with televisions and
radios digital technology is changing
all of our lives with computers
smartphones and of course the internet
and if you look at just the last 10
years ecommerce big data global
communications a social media what a
phenomenal phenomenal rate of change the
radio to 38 years to reach 50 million
users the television 14 the internet for
the iPod 3 and Facebook clocked up 200
million users and its first year that
piece of change is so fast it’s almost
instantaneous but as a quantum physicist
I see a new horizon a new change a new
series of technologies and they’re based
on quantum quantum technologies so I’m
sure some of you are wondering what
quantum zolab a is it Quantum of Solace
is it the quantum leap well for the
Bourne fans it’s nothing to do with that
and the quantum leaps only a little bit
closer to the truth
quantum comes from the Latin words
meaning how much and quantum physics
means how much probability so let’s
think of a probability as a coin toss if
we reflect a coin it lands in our hands
it’s either a head or a tail but what
happens when the coin spinning it’s up
in the air it’s a head a Teel a head or
a tail we don’t know what the outcomes
going to be until it lands and hits the
day quantum physics is a little bit like
the spinning coin in coin some things
can be different seats there could be
two seats at the same time just like a
head in the tail and nothing is there
until they come as observed if you look
at this on the tiny scale we take an
atom here with its nuclear tray at the
center and we’ve got all the electrons
circulating around our atom we can’t see
precisely we’re on a query electron is
all we know is any particular given
moment in time probably here it will be
so if we think think that through if
this nucleus is here in Glasgow the
electron is probably orbiting it
somewhere in Glasgow but it’s all about
probabilities there’s a small chance
that it’s in Okinawa on the other side
of the world or even in Mars that’s a
difficult thing to to comprehend doesn’t
it but that’s what quantum physics tells
us as we look around the auditorium here
we see chairs walls people
everything seems physical
everything seems real everything seems
governed by the laws of physics but when
we look at this microscopic level it’s
all just probabilities so all of these
things that we take to be real they’re
real they are rather than being the laws
of physics they’re just very likely
probabilities so this weird
understanding of coin some it’s
important because at least laces look at
the world in a different way and once we
do that it lets us start to use quantum
physics to invent things coin soms got a
few tricks up its sleeve
take this this example is weave particle
duality we think of something like an
atom to be solid to be like a blow of
all but it can also be like a wave
perhaps a little bit like the ripples
when you throw a stone into the water
imagine you’re there you’re throwing a
stone into the water the ripples reply
somebody else comes along and joint you
throws a second stone the patterns
become more complex they may urge they
interfere with each other the same thing
happens at atomic level and that lets us
know builds device is called atom
interferometers where we can take the
waves of individual atoms and use them
to sense what’s happening to individual
atom we might want to look at it effect
of electricity magnetism mass we can use
these electrons individually to start
and meet these measures of our world and
our universe a second strange trick the
coin has up its sleeve is known as
entanglement Einstein called this spooky
action at a distance two atoms one here
one here they become entangled they
behave as an assembler so something
happens to this item it happens to that
atom think of our tossing coins as a
state we could have one atom a head or a
tail or heel a head or a tail another
head a teal a head or a tail we built it
up coin by coin
the probabilities and and the
possibilities growing exponentially and
is this exponential growth and the
entanglement that leads to the ability
for us to use atoms as quantum
information base we can use these atoms
as the best to build future computers
the potential is exponential the atoms
are tiny and we can we can drive the
entanglement across many many atoms so
that’s probably enough of the sayings
for now I promise that we take a look
into the future and a glimpse into the
future of what technology meat brain so
let’s take a look not into the not too
distant future and let’s take a look at
a new glass cool let’s call it a quantum
glass cool so imagine that your grand is
not well she’s going to the hospital she
needs a scan but instead of getting
instead of getting into an MRI machine
with all the claustrophobia the stress
the noise the expense she pulls on the
heart but it’s a special heart it’s a
coin some heart
it’s got millions of pixels they can
read the electromagnetic waves and say
to our brain so that the doctors can see
our health our brain health and it’s all
reported real-time a much simpler more
elegant solution but then maybe there’s
this coin some cap could become a
thought collecting cap what would you
use out for well imagine my wife tells
me to pick up some Brussels sprouts at
the shop the cap catches my thought
then HD I’m coming out with a short edit
room remains me about the Brussels
sprouts put them in the bag and I’ll
leave the shop job done and stared off
as normal with a bowl of wine and a
sense of foregoing something the cat can
lead to answer all different forms of
sensing for Life Sciences in many many
different ways but meanwhile back at the
hospital the scientists are fired up the
first coin some computer in Glasgow
and that quantum computer is able to
make enormous numbers of calculations
millions upon millions upon millions of
more calculations in the standard
computer and we’re able to model the way
the proteins fold edges DNA work how did
the genes transfer from one generation
to another I know what they’re starting
to do is the starting to work how these
genes can create pathways to cure
disease cancers Parkinson’s so quantum
computers would literally change the way
that healthcare works in the world we’re
able to hospital now
granny’s gone home or quantum hats got
rolled safe again I know what we’ve done
as we move down into there the damps of
the foster clade and what we’re looking
at now is a submarine this is the first
submarine to use quantum positioning
we’re using these tiny tiny coins
mechanical forces and our atoms to send
with incredible precision the exact
possession of the submarine the
possessions that we can create our
thousand times better than any other
technology and of course it’s all
self-contained so we don’t have to go to
the surface for GPS if we commit this
technology smaller we can use it in
planes cars even in cell phones at that
point we then have completely autonomous
positioning see if simple reliable
positioning and our quantum or submarine
is in connection with Glasgow’s climate
center it too has a new quantum computer
the quantum computer is able to to
measure the weather and model the
weather forecast with pinpoint accuracy
over pinpoints of time but not only that
is able to do more than that it’s able
to take in data on pollution agriculture
human use of land all these types of
parameters and it can feed those into
the computer so that we can learn
outcomes to improve an environment to
improve our city to improve our world so
hope today I’ve had the chance to give
you a little bit of an insight into this
quantum world so let you think a little
bit use your imagination about how it’s
going to change our society to think of
it about how some of the societal
changes rain health environment and
safety will change the future of all our
lives it’s going to be an exciting time
for coin some of pure quantum leap thank
you
[Applause]
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