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Quantum island: why Helgoland is a great spot for fundamental thinking

12 Jun 2025 Matin Durrani

Matin Durrani explains why delegates at the Helgoland 2025 meeting are getting rather obsessed discussing foundational questions in quantum mechanics

The island of Helgoland
Island thinking Helgoland, looking south from roughly the spot where Werner Heisenberg supposedly discovered quantum mechanics in June 1925. (Courtesy: Matin Durrani)
Jack Harris, a quantum physicist at Yale University in the US, has a fascination with islands. He gr

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