According to quantum physics, the observer is critical to reality. Is a world independent of the observer an illusion? Or did Heisenberg and quantum physics get it wrong? Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft, constructor theorist Chiara Marletto and Oxford quantum philosopher Christopher Timpson debate our role in reality.

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Gerardus 't Hooft is a theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions".

Chiara Marletto is a quantum physicist working at the University of Oxford. She is currently focusing on developing Constructor Theory a recently proposed new fundamental theory of physics - applying it to address problems at the foundations of physics.

Christopher Timpson is a Professor in the Philosophy of Physics. His latest book Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics provides the first full-length philosophical treatment of quantum information theory and the questions it raises for our understanding of the quantum world.

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