Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, in Périgueux for encouraging young people to study science

The audience, made up of retired scholars, but also teachers accompanied by their educated students from secondary schools in Périgueux, was attentive.

The first signs of agitation appeared when an equation describing the behavior of a wave and a particle appeared on the screen: Don’t panic, Alain Aspect showed pedagogy, by popularizing the principles of his main discovery, with good humor. Because for him, the challenge is clearly not that everyone understands his work, because “if it were that simple, I simply wouldn’t have won a Nobel Prize,” he says sarcastically. But okay in presenting science as part of general culture.

“When a person presents himself as an intellectual, we will look at him if he does not know Victor Hugo. On the other hand, we will have no problem accepting that she does not know anything about science.

Tomorrow’s brains

“When a person presents himself as an intellectual, we will look at him if he does not know Victor Hugo. On the other hand, we will have no problem accepting that she does not know anything about science, as the physicist believes. However, in the midst of the climate crisis, how can we talk reasonably about nuclear power plants without having any idea of ​​the rules of conservation of matter?