PIRSA:09090077  ( Flash Presentation , Windows Presentation , Windows Video File , MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): N. David Mermin

Abstract: The subject of this conference is the Quantum State --- what the hell it is. A central issue is whether quantum states describe reality (the ontic view) or an agent's knowledge of reality (the epistemic view). Advocates of the epistemic view maintain that many quantum puzzles and conundra are artifa... read more

Date: 27/09/2009 - 9:30 am

Collection: PIAF 09' New Perspectives on the Quantum State

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PIRSA:06070037  ( Flash Presentation , Windows Presentation , Windows Video File , MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): N. David Mermin

Abstract: I will show Abner how to construct Minkowski's space-time diagrams directly from Einstein's two postulates and some very elementary plane geometry. This geometric route into special relativity was developed while teaching the subject to nonscientists, but some of its features may be unfamiliar to p... read more

Date: 18/07/2006 - 9:15 am

Collection: Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle

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