Adam Forrest Kay

Adam Forrest Kay studied Classics and physics at the University of Colorado, and did his graduate work in England and France. He is the recipient of many scholarships and academic distinctions. He has two PhDs, one in literature from the University of Cambridge and the other in mathematics from the University of Oxford. His maths dissertation discussed the possibility of three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogues, and in the summer of 2020 Adam took up a research position at MIT to work with John Bush, the leading scholar in the field of HQA. Adam's current research interests centre around realist models of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and partial differential equations, particularly variable coefficient wave equations. 

His first book ESCAPE FROM SHADOW PHYSICS was published by Basic Books in the US and Scribe in Australia & New Zealand.

Current Publication: ESCAPE FROM SHADOW PHYSICS: THE QUEST TO END THE DARK AGES OF QUANTUM THEORY - Basic Books (US) and Scribe Books (ANZ), 2024

The "artfully written...splendid history of classical and quantum physics" (Science) that "rightfully highlights the limitations of current physics" (Wall Street Journal) and argues for a revolutionary new understanding of quantum mechanics 

The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the outlandish belief that quantum objects—indeed, reality itself—aren’t real unless shaped by human measurement. Einstein mocked this idea, asking whether his bed spread out across his room unless he looked at it. And yet it remains one of the most influential ideas in science and our culture. 
 
In Escape from Shadow Physics, Adam Forrest Kay takes up Einstein’s torch: reality isn’t mysterious or dependent on human measurement, but predictable and independent of us. At the heart of his argument is groundbreaking research with little drops of oil. These droplets behave as particles do in the long-overlooked quantum theory of pilot waves; crucially, they showcase quantum behaviour while being described by classical physics. And that classical-quantum interface points to a true understanding of quantum mechanics and a reasonable universe. 

A bold and essential reset of the field, Escape from Shadow Physics describes the kind of true scientific revolution that comes along just once—or less—in a century.

Praise for ESCAPE FROM SHADOW PHYSICS:

'Fun, heady stuff' - Washington Independent Review of Books 

'Escape from Shadow Physics is brilliant. Clear but never condescending, precise yet never dry, it exposes how the current state of physics has not been reached through dispassionate thought but through ego, groupthink and thuggery - phenomena that are by nature all too human.' - The Saturday Paper