On Tuesday February 27, Martin Laforest a graduate student at IQC will be hosting a workshop for grade 10 students in the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Unlimited Program. The title of his talk is "Peering into the strange world of Quantum Mechanics".
The students participating in this workshop, will experience a counter-intuitive quantum mechanical phenomenon. They will see with their own eyes how light suffers from multiple personality disorder: sometimes it thinks it is made out of waves, sometime made out of particles.
They will also be given a tour of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance laboratory (which contains big, powerful superconducting magnet) where they will experience how the spin of an electron, a proton and neutron needs to go around more than once to come back to it original position.