4th Edition of the European Lasers, Photonics, and Optics Technologies Summit
Only very rarely in the evolution of human understanding does some outlying natural philosopher come up with a new understanding of the Universe that changes everything about the way that human beings regard themselves and each other. For example, there was Galileo in the late 16th century. It was not just the Roman Church authorities who regarded Galileo as insane, everybody who was not a serious astronomer did so too. In the case of the new discovery of Quantum Relativity, the equivalent to the serious astronomers of the late 16th century of 400 years ago, are your community today. Astronomers look deep into outer space, where as in our community we are far more concerned with the space surrounding atoms, but the same logic applies everywhere. The ultra large turns out to be very confusing indeed, where as the space of atoms could not be easier and we have abundant opportunity for exploration. No man will ever leave the Solar System, worrying about beyond the Solar System is frankly absurd. We are all made of atoms and we can almost touch them. Our understanding of Quantum Relativity is held back by a false understanding of so-called negative numbers that has not changed in these last 2,400 years.
