Students were able to hear from one of Troy University’s most brilliant minds, Dr. Bruno Costa, last Thursday when Troy’s Center for Cosmology and Relativity held their third installment of their ongoing lecture series in the library media room.
Costa, an assistant professor of physics, spoke to students about the concept of quantum entanglement and its probabilistic nature. Costa explained what the concept meant.
“My lecture was about this thing called quantum entanglement, which is one of the most unexpected features of quantum mechanics,” Costa said. “Quantum entanglement really has a lot to do with the odd nature of reality and how different it is in the description of quantum mechanics as opposed to classical physics.”
Costa's lecture also included topics such as quantum transportation, the difference of quantum correlations and particles.
Braxton Jones, a freshmen cyber security major from Clanton, Alabama, shared what he took away from the lecture.
“I’ve always had an interest in quantum physics,” Jones said. “I’ve studied the basics of quantum mechanics on my own time.
“My favorite part of the lecture was when Dr. Costa started talking about transformation particles. I realized that there was a lot more math involved than I originally thought.
I also didn’t know that we didn’t have a set definition for particles within science. I always thought that they were addressed to something like protons, electrons and atoms.”
Eva Reese, a senior double majoring in English and Psychology from Houston, Texas, attended the lecture and found quantum entanglement to be a challenging subject.
“I learned that I don’t know a lot about quantum entanglement,” Reese said. “I came here to stab down some definitions, and I learned that there’s probably not a lot of definition material to work with because the subject is so nebulous.”
Reese expressed her favorite part of Costa’s lecture
“I liked that Dr. Costa mentioned that physics isn’t stories," Reese said. “Whatever you see is what you perceive to be real.
“You can have different ways of explaining what you perceive to be real how what came to be.”
Costa also shared what he wanted students to take away from the lecture.
“If students take away a little bit about of how to think about probabilities or the relation between agents and how to use probabilities, I will be happy," Costa said. “If they take away something about local hidden variables that get denied that use quantum mechanics, I will also be happy.”
Troy's Center for Relativity and Cosmology will hold their next lecture on the topic of mathematical relativity. To learn when the lecture is scheduled, students can follow Troy University on Facebook.
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