Christophe Galfard: “When we look at the universe, it is the technology of tomorrow that is used today”

He is the author of several bestsellers including “The Universe at your fingertips”: Christope Galfard, student of Stephen Hawking, doctor in theoretical physics, became a specialist in popularization. He assures that the era is that of a “cosmological revolution”: “About 100 years ago, we had new tools to understand the reality around us. We understood, it was theoretical, it was equations, papers, pens, pencils, erasers. And we understood the world of the tiny, with quantum physics, which we had absolutely no knowledge of before. And we understood the world of the gigantic, with Einstein, who made us understand what gravitation was, in a certain way“.

The concrete translation of this arrives today, also thanks to a framework, that of quantum physics, which has made it possible to understand more things: “It's the same technology that gave us our computers and our cell phones. Except that when we look at the universe, it is the technology of tomorrow which is used today by scientists and which shows us a universe that we have absolutely never seen. We waited 100 years to lift the veils like this on a fabulously beautiful and mysterious universe.”