Marta Zafra
Most physicists operate under the assumption that there is a world out there that is entirely independent of us, an objective reality in which more-or-less well-defined things behave according to immutable physical laws. Yet over the past century, ever since the development of quantum theory, there have been discombobulating questions about the role of observers – not least ourselves – in the makings of reality.
These questions are often brushed under the carpet, but , a theorist at the Complutense University of Madrid, prefers to confront them. Arguably, he has been pushed to do so by his work on one…