Quantum Chess, Hawking Versus Rudd, For the Fate of Humanity

This is too good not to share.

To celebrate Caltech’s symposium on quantum science, they somehow enlisted Stephen Hawking and Paul Rudd to go mano-a-mano in a game of quantum chess. Why Paul Rudd? Apparently his appearance in Ant Man, where he explored the quantum realm, qualified him as an expert. If that doesn’t pique your interest, then what if I told you the whole thing was arranged from the future by Keanu Reeves in order to save humanity?

Heck, just watch it to find out what kind of YouTube videos Hawking watches in his spare time. Trust me.

David Crotty

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David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.