HPRC School, Joint Seminar with School of Mathematics & Physics, QBism, or what Quantum Mechanics Says about the World, presented by Professor Rudiger Schack (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 11 April 2014
- Time:
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Room:
- Room E302 Forgan Smith Building (1)
- UQ Location:
- Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Serena Bagley
- Phone:
- 52795
- Email:
- s.bagley@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Event Description
- Full Description:
- By taking seriously Asher Peres's dictum “Unperformed experiments have no results”, QBism arrives at a coherent interpretation of quantum mechanics that gives an explicit role to the perceiving subject. QBism is radical in that it regards science as a tool rather than a static descriptionof nature. At the same time, QBism has conservative aspects such as the absence of any tension between quantum mechanics and special relativity – QBism has no room for nonlocality. In this talk I will discuss the main features of QBism and explore QBism's far-reaching consequences. In particular, I will explain why decoherence has no foundational role in QBism.
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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