The Life Scientific: Vlatko Vedral on the Universe as Quantum Information

Vlatko Vedral describes himself as a quantum information practitioner, who believes the universe is made up of quantum bits of information revealing the very nature of reality. Vlatko is Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Oxford and the Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore and he talks to Jim in front of an audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival. At school in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, young Vlatko was bowled over by the idea that you could take the micro-laws of quantum mechanics, and apply them to the complex systems of the macro world. He admits that this desire to see and understand the big picture is what drives him