Quantum Theory is the cutting-edge meta-narrative of our times. The challenges physicists face in attempting to explain it to the non physicist, and often to themselves, involve the use of language, counter intuitive notions about cause-and-effect logic, the positing of images and metaphors to describe the quantum field–are there electrons, particles, waves, fields, antimatter, quarks,…

Students taking this connection will be prompted to consider how mathematicians and astronomers approach the question of the shape of the universe.  By the end of the connection students will be better equipped to think about the possible geometries of our space and how scientists would go about successfully determining an answer to the question.…