Portals to a New Reality

Vlatko Vedral is a revolutionary in the best sense: where others see stagnation and impasse, he sees signposts – or “portals”, as he calls them – to a future in which our very conception of reality will be overturned. In this stimulating and provocative book, Vedral seeks to shatter complacency by identifying five portals to a radically new understanding of reality – David Deutsch, author of The Beginning of InfinityA typically fearless contribution from Vlatko Vedral: a lucid, compellingly argued collection of bold ideas that defy the standard ways of thinking. At a time when the field feels like it is stuck for ideas, Portals to A New Reality opens the door on what could prove an exciting future for fundamental physics – Michael Brooks, author of The Art of MoreNo, not magic mushrooms; something far more reliable and compelling: a lucid, unflinching, and undeflected commitment to the pursuit of a quantum theory of reality – Peter AtkinsIn Portals to a New Reality, Vlatko Vedral opens five provocative gateways to the future of physics. With clarity and wit, he challenges the limits of conventional thinking, arguing that the next great revolution won’t come from ever-larger colliders or far-flung speculation, but from quantum information theory itself. From entangled cats to quantum gravity and the nature of time, Vedral explores how understanding quantum information could unify physics—and transform our view of life, the universe, and everything. A bold manifesto for those who believe real progress begins with asking better questions – Artur Ekert

Vlatko Vedral is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, known for both his theoretical and experimental work on quantum information, including developing a novel way of quantifying entanglement and applying it to macroscopic physical systems. When not studying the fundamental nature of reality, he enjoys drawing, wakeboarding and playing his electric guitar very loudly. He is the author of the 2010 book Decoding Reality, as well as several textbooks. Born in Serbia, he now lives in Oxford.