Physics for secure and efficient societies

¹ Queen Mary University and Alan Turing Institute, London
² Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

Abstract

Physics research contains two very different aspects–there is the fundamental research driven by curiosity, with the ultimate aim of understanding very small interacting systems, very large interacting systems, and the complex behaviour on intermediate scales, but there is also the applied side, where physics is applied to develop new technologies, new analysis methods and new concepts and insights that are useful for society. Read about it in Chapter 6 of the EPS Grand Challenges for Physics.