The frontiers of physics: From planets to photons

Physics is sometimes described in terms of two frontiers, says Professor Jamieson, a physicist at the University of Melbourne and Chief Investigator of the Victorian node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology.

“One frontier is cosmological. You look out into the abyss of space, an enormous scale of space and time.”

“So that’s a journey into the wide frontier as we explore the cosmos with evermore powerful telescopes and...