We used to believe light was a wave, then we discovered it had the properties of a particle that we call a photon. Now we know it, like all elementary quantum objects, is both a wave and a particle!
We are delighted to announce the winners in this edition of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition. Five stories claim prizes across the competition’s Open and Youth categories.
“The wildly divergent approaches to the quantum world and the constraint were inspiring,” says judge Colin Sullivan from Nature. Go here to find the winning stories, see what else the judges had to say about them and to read interviews with the authors.
Congratulations to the winners – and to all the writers who entered and made our decisions so difficult! Quantum shorts will be back again later this year with a call for short films.
Otto is a cartoonist and former science teacher. He is the author of a series of comic books for school children called Sir Fong's Adventures in Science, a sci-fi horror-adventure series of novels for young people, Black Peony, and an adult horror novel Bitter Suites. He has also written for theatre. Otto was an Outreach Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National Univesity of Singapore in 2014-15, leading to The Quantum Bunny addition to his Sir Fong's series. His most recent book is about synthetic biology.