Professor R. Shankar gives the “In the Company of Scholars” lecture of the Yale Graduate School

Ramamurti Shankar, chair of the physics department, faced a daunting challenge when he was invited by Graduate School Dean Susan Hockfield to explain quantum theory to non-physicists without using mathematical equations – and he almost pulled it off.

One equation did sneak into his talk, titled “When you come to a fork in the road, take it – Yogi Berra’s introduction to the quantum world,” but the rest of the lecture was free of math and full of humor.

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