Despite being our most successful scientific theory, quantum mechanics raises deep ontological questions about the nature of reality—questions that bring philosophy back to the forefront of our quest to understand the universe. Slavoj Žižek argues that we should take it’s philosophical consequences seriously, we should see reality as incomplete. On September 21st, at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London’s Kenwood House, three of the most eminent public intellectuals will gather for a debate on one of the most profound questions in science and philosophy: the unknowability of the universe. The panel will include Nobel laureate and mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, theoretical physicist and YouTube sensation Sabine Hossenfelder, and philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, who will debate the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics.This article is presented in association with …

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