# 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.

Type: person. Context selected by Escape Meridian; inclusion is not endorsement.

[Collection](/entities/jonathan-halliwell)
[Original website](https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-does-the-quantum-world-end-and-ours-begin-20260917/)

## Sources

- [Quanta Magazine](https://www.quantamagazine.org/): Make unfamiliar questions in mathematics, physics and biology approachable before following the underlying work.

## Perspectives


## Terminal notes

- [A Joy of Why episode asks where the quantum description stops](/notes/quanta-decoherence-2026-09-17.md): Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin talk with Jonathan Halliwell about decoherence and how the familiar world emerges from quantum behavior.

## Parallels


## Context references

- [https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-does-the-quantum-world-end-and-ours-begin-20260917/](https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-does-the-quantum-world-end-and-ours-begin-20260917/)

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