Gabriella Greison brings on stage 'I will kill Schrödinger's cat'

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April 21, 2021 It is the most famous cat in science, so much so that it enters the common phrase book. Anyone who thinks they know him, is present in 15 films released in the last decade, 7 successful TV series, hundreds of

, satirical strips, depopulated on YouTube, is the most represented physics topic outside of scientific circles. But no one knows exactly what it represents for its creator, and no one knows the great discoveries that led Erwin Schrödinger to the Olympus of science. Gabriella Greison will answer all this with her latest show,

, staged in national premiere and streaming on Saturday 24th from the Teatro Nuovo in Salsomaggiore, directed by Marco Caronnna and with music by Fabio Cinti .

Defined as “the revolutionary face of science in Italy” and “the rock star of physics”, Greison brings the new work to the stage with the aim of making once again the science of the infinitely small, quantum physics, accessible to ordinary people. On stage Greison plays Alice, 28 in full existential crisis and in constant conflict with herself. Alice is terrified of making decisions. Fortunately, Erwin Schrödinger, the Austrian scientist Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, who has revolutionized our way of life and our future, will come to help her.

After the First Quantum Revolution which brought commonly used objects such as cell phones, CD players, silicon chips into our hands and at the dawn of what scientists call the Second Quantum Revolution, when our lives are about to change thanks to the new technological impulses that will soon be within everyone's reach, the storyteller and "woman of Italian popular physics" felt the need to give a new narrative to quantum physics by making it simple, human and "habitable", a place where everyone can enter.

Greison did his research in San Francisco and Vienna, where Schrödinger was born, lived, and where the archive of his thoughts is kept, and wrote this story which has a wonderful metaphor for life in the famous paradox of Schrödinger's cat. . She is a physicist, writer, professional journalist, theater performer. He graduated in nuclear physics in Milan and taught in high schools, worked two years at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and at the science museum in Milan. He has created radio and television broadcasts. He has written in magazines and newspapers.

is his latest book, published by Mondadori.