What happens when a brilliant, unorthodox physicist reflects on a lifetime of discovery? Quantum Quest is an intimate and wide-ranging dialogue with Belgian theoretical physicist Diederik Aerts, whose pioneering work in quantum foundations and quantum cognition has shaped generations of researchers.

In this candid and spontaneous conversation with his close collaborator Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Aerts revisits pivotal moments of his scientific journey, including bold ideas, collaborative breakthroughs, and the human and intellectual encounters that shaped them.

The result is both deeply personal and rigorously scientific, ranging from Bell’s inequalities and quantum probabilities to the nature of language, and how meaning shapes reality. While parts of the conversation venture into technical terrain, Aerts’ rare ability to clarify complex ideas keeps the dialogue remarkably accessible, and often surprisingly funny.

For the lay reader, this is a rare window into the mind of a cutting-edge physicist-philosopher. For the expert, it’s a chance to see familiar ideas from an unexpectedly revealing angle. Whether you come from physics, the humanities, or simply a deep curiosity about the nature of reality, Quantum Quest draws you into a conversation that blurs the usual boundaries between disciplines, animated by the deeply human need to make sense of it all.

Also available in Italian