On Tuesday February 27, Martin Laforest a graduate student at IQC will be hosting a workshop for grade 10 students in the Waterloo Unlimited Program. The title of his talk is "Peering into the strange world of Quantum Mechanics".
The students participating in this workshop, will experience a counter-intuitive quantum mechanical phenomenon. They will see with their own eyes how light suffers from multiple personality disorder: sometimes it thinks it is made out of waves, sometime made out of particles.
They will also be given a tour of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance laboratory (which contains big, powerful superconducting magnet) where they will experience how the spin of an electron, a proton and neutron needs to go around more than once to come back to it original position.