23–27 Mar 2015
Erice (Sicily) - Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Quantum Physics without Quantum Philosophy

24 Mar 2015, 14:30
45m
Erice (Sicily) - Italy

Erice (Sicily) - Italy

Speaker

Nino Zanghi (University of Genova)

Description

Quantum philosophy, a peculiar twentieth century malady, is responsible for most of the conceptual muddle plaguing the foundations of quantum physics. When this philosophy is eschewed, one naturally arrives at Bohmian mechanics, which is what emerges from Schro ̈dinger’s equation for a nonrelativistic system of particles when we merely insist that “particles” means particles.

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