PIRSA:13050071

Towards a realist's interpretation of the path integral

Wallden, P. (2013). Towards a realist's interpretation of the path integral. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/13050071

Wallden, Petros. Towards a realist's interpretation of the path integral. Perimeter Institute, May. 31, 2013, https://pirsa.org/13050071 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:13050071,
            doi = {10.48660/13050071},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/13050071},
            author = {Wallden, Petros},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Towards a realist{\textquoteright}s interpretation of the path integral},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2013},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:13050071 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Petros Wallden University of Athens

Talk number PIRSA:13050071
DOI 10.48660/13050071
Collection
Talk Type Conference

Abstract

Having a fundamental spacetime view of physics, appears more justified in attempting to construct a quantum theory of gravity. In this talk, motivated by the latter,  a path integral approach is adopted and an attempt to construct a self-consistent realistic histories formulation of quantum theory is presented. After revising the histories viewpoint of classical physics, the quantum case is considered. However, the nature of the probabilities arising from the path integral, leads us to alter the classical picture. The new ontology is that of a coevent (or a coarse grained history), and we analyse the consequences of this (relatively) novel proposal.