Q/A session with Serge Haroche

"A valid answer comes when the question is lived" 



An interactive session was held with Prof. Serge Haroche. A lot of interesting questions were asked by students of various schools and colleges. Questions regarding Schrodinger's cat , time traveling, laser supercooling and heating, the discovery of speed of light and different topics of quantum physics to which Prof. Serge Haroche answered effortlessly.

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