Jonathan Halliwell

Identified on the Quanta page as a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London and the guest of this Joy of Why episode.

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Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin talk with Jonathan Halliwell about decoherence and how the familiar world emerges from quantum behavior.

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