Despite being our most successful scientific theory, quantum mechanics raises deep ontological questions about the nature of reality—questions that bring philosophy back to the forefront of our quest to understand the universe. Slavoj Žižek argues that we should take it’s philosophical consequences seriously, we should see reality as incomplete.

On September 21st, at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London’s Kenwood House, Zizek will be on a panel alongside Nobel laureate and mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, and theoretical physicist and YouTube sensation Sabine Hossenfelder, to debate the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. Book your place now. 

This article is presented in association with Closer To Truth, a partner for HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2024.