Antonis Papanestis

When I’m not doing physics, I like to read science fiction. One of my favorite writers is Iain Banks, a Scottish writer who writes about the very, very far future, when everything that is possible is actually happening because technology is so advanced. Sometimes people ask me the point of what we do. We can always talk about the applications. But I also ask them, ‘Do you watch Star Trek or Star Wars?’ And I ask, ‘Would you someday like the technology to do this?’ And if the answer is yes, we have to do the research. We have to figure out space and time. It may take thousands of years, but if you never do the research, you never get the technology.