Domenico Giulini
(University of Hannover)
27/03/2015, 09:30
I will discuss several conceptually interesting open problems in General Relativity, including those relating to Quantum Mechanics.
Andre Grossardt
(University of Trieste)
27/03/2015, 10:15
I discuss the hypothetical possibility of a theory in which only matter is quantised, but gravity is described by the classical theory of General Relativity, even at the fundamental level. From the most naive approach for such a theory, one obtains the Schrödinger-Newton equation as a non-relativistic limit. I present possibilities of experimental tests of such an alternative to Quantum Gravity.
Lajos Diosi
(Wigner Research Center for Physics)
27/03/2015, 12:15
The inception of a universal gravity-related irreversibility took place originally in quantum cosmology but it turned out soon that a universal non-unitary dynamics is problematic itself. Independent investigations of the quantum measurement postulate clarified that a non-unitary dynamics is of interest already in the non-relativistic context. An intricate relationship between Newton gravity...