RE: https://biologists.social/@ZooCELL/115531958502287872

Odd fact time:

I have chatted with Jim Al-Khalili on two occasions while we were both standing next to each other at urinals; once in a pub, and once in an aquarium.

#Science #JimAlKhalili

(Having never paid attention to anything ever before, I cannot tell if Peter Knight is absolutely full of nonsensical shit.)

Peter Knight on quantum technologies

There are problems and tasks so hard and complicated that it would take today’s most powerful supercomputers millions of years to crack them. But in the next decade, we may well have quantum computers which could solve such problems in seconds.

Professor Sir Peter Knight is a British pioneer in the realms of quantum optics and quantum information science. During his three decades as a researcher at Imperial College London, he has advanced our understanding of the physics which underpins how quantum computers work.

Quantum optics was a new field of physics at the start of Peter Knight’s career in the early 1970s and he tells Jim Al-Khalili about the excitement and opportunities for a young scientist at the birth of a new scientific discipline. He also talks about the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. Since his retirement in 2010, Peter Knight has been the driving force behind this £1 billion government-funded endeavour which has positioned the UK as a world leader in the development and commercialisation of quantum computing and other revolutionary quantum inventions.

Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
A BBC Studios Production

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repeat Wednesday
2025-10-15 2100-2130

(all episodes of TheLifeScientific are downloadable)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002krgs

#Science Communication, #Humanism, and #Time: An Interview with Prof. #JimAlKhalili

https://thehumanist.com/features/interviews/science-communication-humanism-and-time-an-interview-with-prof-jim-al-khalili

Sad to hear of Ian Wilmut passing away. Here he is back in 2016, talking during the #Edinburgh Festival with Jim Al-Khalili for a recording of The Life Scientific https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/28898172180/

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« The Amazing World of Gravity (Full Physics Documentary) » with #JimAlKhalili🎓

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