Portals to a New Reality
Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics
- Published: 28 October 2025
- ISBN: 9781837312207
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
A typically fearless contribution from Vlatko Vedral: a lucid, compellingly argued collection of bold ideas that defy the standard ways of thinking. At a time when the field feels like it is stuck for ideas, Portals to A New Reality opens the door on what could prove an exciting future for fundamental physics
Michael Brooks, author of The Art of More
In Portals to a New Reality, Vlatko Vedral opens five provocative gateways to the future of physics. With clarity and wit, he challenges the limits of conventional thinking, arguing that the next great revolution won’t come from ever-larger colliders or far-flung speculation, but from quantum information theory itself. From entangled cats to quantum gravity and the nature of time, Vedral explores how understanding quantum information could unify physics—and transform our view of life, the universe, and everything. A bold manifesto for those who believe real progress begins with asking better questions
Artur Ekert
No, not magic mushrooms; something far more reliable and compelling: a lucid, unflinching, and undeflected commitment to the pursuit of a quantum theory of reality
Peter Atkins
Vlatko Vedral is a revolutionary in the best sense: where others see stagnation and impasse, he sees signposts – or "portals", as he calls them – to a future in which our very conception of reality will be overturned. In this stimulating and provocative book, Vedral seeks to shatter complacency by identifying five portals to a radically new understanding of reality
David Deutsch, author of The Beginning of Infinity