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From Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize in Physics 1929, to Serge Haroche, Nobel Prize in Physics 2012, embark with Christophe Galfard on a century-long journey to discover Schrödinger's cat, the quantum world and parallel universes. A graduate of the École Centrale d'Administration, Doctor of Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge and former student of Stephen Hawking, Christophe Galfard is passionate about transmitting scientific knowledge to the general public. Producer of the series “L'univers en trois minutes” and “L'univers à portée de main” on France Inter during the summers of 2013 and 2015, he regularly appears in the media to explain current scientific advances. His latest book, “L'univers à portée de main”, which tells the story of man's place in the universe through a cosmic and quantum journey, is a bestseller already translated into fourteen languages. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx