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This is a brief account of the influential role physicists played in the early days of computing — a story with unexpected parallels with the current revolution in AI.
One hundred years ago, Louis de Broglie posed a question: could matter particles behave like waves? This duality was already known for light; extending it to electrons and indeed all matter had huge implications, especially for the development of quantum mechanics.
What can three ambitious physics experiments, currently under construction or in the start of their operational phase, show us about big science in China?
