Look and It’s Gone: The Tenuous Reality of Things, with Peter Bancel

Join us at the Ridgefield Library on Tuesday, December 3rd at 7:00 pm as Peter Bancel presents Look and It’s Gone: The Tenuous Reality of Things.  Please register.

How does knowledge about quantum theory and psychic phenomena affect our understanding of our world? Both are mysterious, and both are topics of serious research. Both tell us that our world is much wilder than what we imagine. And, both have surprising connections to consciousness. This talk explores the microscopic world as well as the world of human experience and how they both link together in a surprising way.

One of the delights of discovery is making sense of our world. But what if we discover that, like Alice peering in the looking glass, we’re forced to believe impossible things? Peter Bancel will take us on a tour of three discoveries that upend what we believe about our world. Like Alice’s adventures, these discoveries confront science – and ourselves – with surprises that baffle and seem impossible.

This program is part of the Library's scholarly series, The Curious Mind: Exploration and Discovery, made possible by the Generosity of the Friends of the Ridgefield Library.