Jenny Hogan, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
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Ask people for a short film inspired by quantum physics, and what will they make? When we launched the Quantum Shorts film competition with New Scientist, we didn?t really know.
With two days until submissions close in the competition, we are looking forward to even more weird, wonderful, hilarious and insightful quantum-inspired films. You have until 23:59 UTC/GMT on 1 December - tomorrow - to submit them at shorts.quantumlah.org.
The top 10 shortlisted films will be announced here on newscientist.com in another week or so.
We provided a few films of our own to stimulate the creative juices. The Centre for Quantum Technologies currently has a resident film-maker, Karol Jalochowski, working on a documentary project. For The Splitter, he filmed competition judge Artur Ekert, a physicist famous as one of the co-inventors of secure communication using quantum physics, living in a human superposition. You can see this and our other two films here.
Our films aren?t in the running for the competition?s prizes. Would they have made the shortlist if they were? See what you think.
Some of the films we?ve enjoyed so far include The Cat, a dark take on the Schr?dinger?s cat paradox, Heisenberg - two women make observations on the man, a film of superb dry humour (don?t get the joke? Read about Heisenberg?s uncertainty principle in our A to Z guide to quantum theory) - and Quantum Daughter, a brilliantly animated and deeply bizarre tale of a woman running between universes with her banana-look-a-like quantum computer phone. You can check out these and all the entries on the competition site?s video entries page.
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