Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle - 2006

July 18, 2006 - July 21, 2006

26 talks C06009 Conference/School

Perimeter Institute will host an international conference from July 18-21, 2006, in honour of Abner Shimony, one of the most eminent physicist-philosophers of our time. Professor Shimony is renowned for his contribution to the famous Bell-CHSH inequality and for many other contributions in the foundations of physics and philosophy. Talks and discussions will cover a wide range of subjects within physics and philosophy, including theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum entanglement and non-locality, relativistic causality, quantum measurement problem, probability theory, temporal transience, the mind-body problem, and scientific realism.

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Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle - Welcome

Howard Burton , Lucien Hardy - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070036 Conference
Geometry of Flat Spacetime

N. David Mermin - Cornell University

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070037 Conference
On the Separability of Physical Systems

Jon Jarrett

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070038 Conference
Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Sandu Popescu - University of Bristol

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070039 Conference
Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Status and Application of Mathematics

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070040 Conference
Quantum Physics and Whitehead's Philosophy a tribute to Abner Shimony

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070041 Conference
The transient nows

Steve Savitt

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070042 Conference
Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070043 Conference
Indistinguishability or stochastic dependence? Authors - D. Costantini and U. Garibaldi

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070044 Conference
Causality in quantum theory and beyond: towards a theory of quantum gravity

Lucien Hardy - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070045 Conference
QIMDS:probing quantum mechanics towards the macroscopic world

Anthony Leggett - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070046 Conference
How Stands Collapse

Philip Pearle - Hamilton College

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070047 Conference

Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle - Welcome

Howard Burton , Lucien Hardy - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070036 Conference
Geometry of Flat Spacetime

N. David Mermin - Cornell University

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070037 Conference

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…
On the Separability of Physical Systems

Jon Jarrett

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070038 Conference

In the context of Bell-type experiments, two related notions of "separability" are offered, one of which is logically stronger than the other. It is shown that the weaker of these is logically equivalent to the statistical independence condition widely taken to have been refuted by the results of…
Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Sandu Popescu - University of Bristol

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070039 Conference
Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Status and Application of Mathematics

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070040 Conference

Abner Shimony mentions that his undergraduate years at Yale in the forties provided an introduction to three profound philosophers that influenced his thought Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Sanders Peirce and Kurt Gödel. For all three, mathematics played a central role in the unfolding of their…
Quantum Physics and Whitehead's Philosophy a tribute to Abner Shimony

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070041 Conference

After having been a Whiteheadian for decades, Abner, under the influence of Lovejoys book, "The Revolt against Dualism, no longer accepts Whiteheads philosophy. In this paper I try to challenge this change of heart, as well as suggest a modification of Whiteheads philosophy that allows for an…
The transient nows

Steve Savitt

July 18, 2006 PIRSA:06070042 Conference

It is often suggested that the special theory of relativity is incompatible with any notion of the passage of time. I shall try to show, following in the footsteps of Abner Shimony, that there is transience to be found in Minkowski spacetime, but this transience is local rather than global.
Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070043 Conference

Taking for granted that the mathematical apparatus for describing probabilities in quantum mechanics is well-understood via work of von Neumann, Lüders, Mackey, and Gleason, we present an overview of different interpretations of probability in quantum mechanics bearing on physics and experiment…
Indistinguishability or stochastic dependence? Authors - D. Costantini and U. Garibaldi

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070044 Conference

Once again the problem of indistinguishability has been recently tackled. The question is why indistinguishability, in quantum mechanics but not in classical one, forces a changes in statistics. Or, what is able to explain the difference between classical and quantum statistics? The answer given…
Causality in quantum theory and beyond: towards a theory of quantum gravity

Lucien Hardy - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070045 Conference

The way we combine operators in quantum theory depends on the causal relationship involved. For spacelike separated spacetime regions we use the tensor product. For immediately sequential regions of spacetime we use the direct product. In the latter case we lose information that is we cannot go…
QIMDS:probing quantum mechanics towards the macroscopic world

Anthony Leggett - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070046 Conference

If one is worried by the quantum measurement problem,a natural question to ask is: Does the quantum-mechanical description of the world retain its validity when its application leads to superpositions of states which by some reasonable criterion are _macroscopically distinct_? Or rather, does any…
How Stands Collapse

Philip Pearle - Hamilton College

July 19, 2006 PIRSA:06070047 Conference

After giving an introduction to the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) theory of dynamical wave function collapse, I shall discuss 10 problems of dynamical collapse models, 5 of which were resolved by CSL's advent, and 5 of which have been subsequently attacked with varying success.

Title	Speaker(s)	Date	Talk Type	Info
Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle - Welcome	Howard Burton, Lucien Hardy	2006-07-18	Conference	View details
Geometry of Flat Spacetime	N. David Mermin	2006-07-18	Conference	View details
On the Separability of Physical Systems	Jon Jarrett	2006-07-18	Conference	View details
Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics	Sandu Popescu	2006-07-18	Conference	View details
Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Status and Application of Mathematics		2006-07-18	Conference	View details
Quantum Physics and Whitehead's Philosophy a tribute to Abner Shimony		2006-07-18	Conference	View details
The transient nows	Steve Savitt	2006-07-18	Conference	View details
Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics		2006-07-19	Conference	View details
Indistinguishability or stochastic dependence? Authors - D. Costantini and U. Garibaldi		2006-07-19	Conference	View details
Causality in quantum theory and beyond: towards a theory of quantum gravity	Lucien Hardy	2006-07-19	Conference	View details
QIMDS:probing quantum mechanics towards the macroscopic world	Anthony Leggett	2006-07-19	Conference	View details
How Stands Collapse	Philip Pearle	2006-07-19	Conference	View details

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