Zeilinger on the Ukraine war: “Now more than ever science and art”

Rather, science, music and art could build bridges, he said, referring to the “terrible war” in Ukraine. He understands “that we are boycotting institutions, but not why we are boycotting individuals – especially now science and art”.

It is important to ensure that this does not support the system, emphasized Zeilinger at the reception. Numerous Austrians from abroad were invited to this, but also Zeilinger’s friend Reinhard Genzel, winner of the Physics Nobel Prize in 2020, and the US physicist Daniel Greenberger, with whom he and Michael Horne devised a special form of entanglement of three particles in 1986.

Once again Zeilinger broke a lance for research funding without questions about benefits and methods. “My research was made possible because I was given the money without having to say what the whole thing is supposed to be good for and what methods we will use to achieve our goal – because we didn’t know that.” What is needed are “tracks in research funding that are open to crazy things,” said Zeilinger, who quoted Albert Einstein as saying to a student: “Your idea is crazy, but not crazy enough.”

Tomorrow, Saturday, Zeilinger will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Alain Aspect and John Clauser.

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