Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: 'The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation'

Chiara Marletto is a research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research is in theoretical physics – especially quantum computation, thermodynamics and information theory. Her broader interests include theoretical biology, epistemology and Italian literature. It is her first non-academic book. You argue for a radically different approach to physics, which you call the science of can and can't.