Quantum Physics

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.On this episode, we’ll speak with a scientist who helped pinpoint a unique – and long theorized – form of matter.And we’ll visit museum in upstate New York that organizers hope will inspire the next generation of firefighters.

Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, co-founder string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books including “Hyperspace,” “Beyond Einstein,” “Physics of the Impossible,” and “Physics of the Future.” His latest “Quantum Supremacy” is a tour of humanity's next great technological achievement, quantum computing.

The Vienna-born Erwin Schrodinger had sent papers on many topics from the trenches during his sevice as an artillery officer in WW1 – as mentioned in my…