{"id":12952,"date":"2016-12-15T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12952"},"modified":"2016-12-16T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:45:39","slug":"quantum-is-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/quantum-is-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Is Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood celebrities are, in many important ways, different from the rest of us. But we are united by one crucial similarity: we are all fascinated by quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n

This was demonstrated to great effect last year, when Paul Rudd and some of his friends starred with Stephen Hawking in the video Anyone Can Quantum<\/em><\/a>, a very funny vignette put together by Spiros Michalakis<\/a> and others at Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter<\/a> (and directed by Alex Winter, who was Bill in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure<\/em>). You might remember Spiros from our adventures emerging space from quantum mechanics<\/a>, but when he’s not working as a mathematical physicist he’s brought incredible energy to Caltech’s outreach programs.<\/p>\n

Now the team is back again with a new video, this one titled Quantum is Calling<\/a><\/em>. This one stars the amazing Zoe Saldana, with an appearance by John Cho and the voices of Simon Pegg and Keanu Reeves, and of course Stephen Hawking once again. (One thing about Caltech: we do not mess around with our celebrity cameos.)<\/p>\n

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Stephen Hawking + Zoe Saldana: Quantum is Calling ft. Keanu Reeves, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Paul Rudd<\/div><\/div>
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