Spooky Pooka
In the foothills to the south of Rome sits Italy’s premier nuclear physics lab, the National Laboratory of Frascati. It has all the equipment you would expect at a cutting-edge science facility, with huge magnets, powerful particle accelerators and exposed electric cables spilling out everywhere. Many of the researchers here are trying to unpick the secrets of the standard model, our best theory of how reality works at its most fundamental level. And then there is the room where Cătălina Curceanu is monitoring a small box of lentils.
Granted, it isn’t exactly normal behaviour for a physicist, but…
