What I liked
Matt Chait: actor, director, teacher, theater manager…quantum physics theorist?…HELL YEAH!
What I didn't like
Perhaps UCLA could grant access to their particle smasher as a dog’n’pony add-on for Understanding the Quantum II.
My overall impression
Matt Chait: actor, director, teacher, theater manager…quantum physics theorist?…HELL YEAH! I’ve only seen Matt without his manager/owner-of-The-Complex hat once when he solo-acted in an evening of I.L. Peretz stories, and that was absolutely lovely. But Understanding the Quantum is so far out of most people’s wheelhouses that I didn’t even need wheels to thoroughly enjoy it. Chait is obviously in love with this fascinating and mysterious subject, perhaps because as he says, it’s “weird” science, yet his take on quantum physics is profound and mind-altering. He takes us back to the Romans, the Greeks, and beyond to truly ancient cultures which appear to have understood much of what we understand today about the birth and life and one-day-someday death of the Universe. Matt is an energetic actor/lecturer/thinker, and for my non-scientific mind this sixty-minute one-man science romp was a pleasure to behold.
