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A truly probabilistic universe

One hundred years of heated debate and mind-bending physics
The ABR Podcast 30 January 2026

A truly probabilistic universe

One hundred years of heated debate and mind-bending physics
The ABR Podcast 30 January 2026

 Sara Webb

This week on The ABR Podcast, Sara Webb investigates the heated debates and mind-bending science of quantum physics. As Webb writes, the ‘universe exists on an unimaginable scale’, its physics strange but wondrous.

Sara Webb is the inaugural ABR Science Fellow and an astrophysicist at Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes (2024), was made a Superstar of STEM in 2022, and was chosen as a Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 in Science & Healthcare in 2025. She specialises in AI-driven transient astronomy, applying machine learning to large-scale survey data to uncover fast cosmic events. Here is Sara Webb with ‘A truly probabilistic universe: One hundred years of heated debate and mind-bending physics’, published in the December issue of ABR.

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