Quantum Quest

Title: Quantum Quest 

Authors: Mark Mitchison, Khalak Mahadeviya, Saulo Moreira

Illustrator: Brigid Sweeney

Publication Date: September 2024

In the autumn of 1967, eleven-year-old twins Alice and Bob are invited to Paris by their Uncle Pierre, a curator at the Marie Curie Museum. After tinkering with a mysterious clock, the twins find themselves transported to the Quantum World, where they experience bizarre phenomena like walking through walls and shape-shifting. They are guided by a talking cat. Despite warnings, the twins’ curiosity gets the better of them. Discover how Alice and Bob save themselves from danger and unlock a few quantum mysteries along the way.

‘Quantum Quest’ was conceived and written through a partnership between Fighting Words creative writing centre and Trinity College Dublin’s AMBER research centre. The project aimed to make complex science and STEM concepts more accessible to the public through the medium of creative writing. Through a series of four creative workshops, researchers from the School of Physics in Trinity College Dublin participating in the EU-funded ASPECTS project, worked with Fighting Words facilitators to write this science story for children.