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Interview

David Deutsch

David Deutsch is a distinguished quantum physicist and a member of the Centre for Quantum Computation at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. He has received the Paul Dirac Prize and Medal from the Institute of Physics for ‘outstanding contributions to theoretical physics’. He recently talked with Filiz Peach about his work and hopes.

David Deutsch’s book The Fabric of Reality, offers a startling new worldview which combines quantum physics, evolution, epistemology and computation. He also deals with quantum computation, a new field of physics in which he has been a pioneer. His explanation of the nature of the universe in terms of quantum physics is inspiring and thought-provoking. However, his favoured interpretation of quantum theory in terms of there being many parallel universes (or a ‘multiverse’ as he calls it) is not widely accepted in the scientific community, or at least not yet. But it may well be part of a new unifying theory of the universe in the 21st century.

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