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Braque, Georges, 67
Brentano, Franz, 166, 174
Broglie, Louis de, 21, 33, 37, 60
Bruckner, Časlav, xi, 201
Buddhism, 150, 153–54
C
Candiotto, Laura, 143, 144
central limit theorem, 215n79
Chalmers, David, 180–81, 185, 190
Churchill, Winston, 16
consciousness, 180–81, 184, 185, 189–90, 195
contextuality, 141, 147–48
Copenhagen, 5–6, 16
Copernicus, 68, 73
correlation, 90–92, 96–99, 102, 168, 171–74, 177–79
Cubism, 67
cybernetics, 132–33
D
Dante Alighieri, 71
Darwin, Charles, 73, 167–73
Democritus, 187
Dirac, Paul, 14, 15–16, 32, 37, 41, 46, 107, 207n6
DNA, 171
Dorato, Mauro, 143
dualism, 141, 183–84, 189
E
Einstein, Albert: debate with Bohr, 54, 135, 138–39; debt to Mach, 118, 128; and determinism, 29; and entanglement, 91; “God does not play dice,” 28–29, 135; and gravity field, 72; on Heisenberg’s ideas, 15; on photoelectric effect, 209n30; and photons, 32–33; and quantum theory, xiii, xv, 33, 138–39; radicalism of, 7, 131; receives Nobel Prize (1921), 37; relativity, 83; and Schopenhauer, 22
electromagnetic waves, 31, 34, 72
Empedocles, 169–70, 220n122
empiriocriticism, 118
emptiness, 151, 154
Engels, Friedrich, 123, 124, 129
entanglement, 89–100, 213n66, 217n100
Everett III, Hugh, 212n57
evolution, 168–73, 175
F
Faraday, Michael, 72
Feynman, Richard, xiii, 52
Freud, Sigmund, 67
G
Galileo Galilei, 10
Gerlach, Walter, 34
Ghirardi, Giancarlo, 211n48
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 4, 202
Göttingen, 6, 10, 16
granularity, 31, 33–35, 105, 109–10
gravity, 72
group theory, 41–42
H
Hamilton’s function, 211n50
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 58
Heisenberg, Werner: Bohr’s influence on, 5–10, 138; on Helgoland, xii, xiv, 6–8, 202; meets Bohr, in occupied Denmark, 16; and “observables,” 8–9, 18–19, 29–30, 33, 38, 121; quantum theory of, 8–16, 45–46, 77, 79, 128, 129; receives Nobel Prize (1932), 37; on wave mechanics, 24–25
Heisenberg matrix, 8–19, 13, 35, 107
Heisenberg’s principle, 104–8, 215n75
Helgoland/Heligoland, xii, xiv, 4, 110–11, 202
Heraclitus, 144
“Hidden Variables” theory, 60–64, 87
Hiroshima, 16–17
Hitler, Adolf, 16
Hume, David, 121, 155
I
idealism, 125, 126, 183–84
indeterminacy, 65–69, 87
information, 100–10, 167–79
intentionality, 166, 176, 179
interactions, 75–79, 84
interference. See quantum interference
Ismael, Jenann, 182
J
Jordan, Pascual, 11–12, 38, 138
Joyce, James, Ulysses, 4
knowledge, 123–24
L
Lenin, Vladimir, 117, 124–30, 133, 141
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 67
linear algebra, 24
Livet, Pierre, 143
Locke, John, 121
logical positivism, 119
M
Mach, Ernst, 7–8, 118–28, 131, 135, 149, 185
“Many Worlds” theory, 56–59, 87n, 182
Marx/Marxism, 120, 123, 124, 129, 131
materialism, 118, 125–27, 183, 184
matrices, 12–14, 13–15, 18, 35, 106–7
matrix mechanics, 24, 25, 27–28
Maxwell, James Clerk, 72
meaning, 166–67, 173–75, 176
metaphysics, 120, 122, 152–53
Micius (satellite), 90
Murnau, F. W., 37
Musil, Robert, 119
N
Nāgārjuna (Buddhist philosopher), 148–58
Nagasaki, 16–17
Nagel, Thomas, 182, 190n
natural selection, 170, 200
neuroscience, 181, 192–93
nirvana, 153–54
Nobel Prizes, 37–38
noncommutative algebra, 107
noncummutavity, 105–8
Nosferatu (film, 1922), 37
O
observables, 8–9, 18–19, 29–30, 33, 38, 120, 121
organization, 132
P
Pauli, Wolfgang, 6, 7, 11, 14, 15–16, 18–19, 37–38, 119
PCM (Projective Consciousness Model), 195
Penrose, Roger, 211n48
Pezzano, Giacomo, 144
phenomenal realism, 149
philosophy, 142–58
photoelectric effect, 33, 34, 209n30
photons, 32–33, 34, 46–52, 61–62, 74, 76–77, 86, 90–92, 105, 107–8, 209n30
physical collapse, of the wave function, 64–65, 211n48
Picasso, Pablo, 67
Pirandello, Luigi, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, 67
Planck’s constant, 31–35, 104, 106–7
Plato, 144–45
Pris, François-Igor, 143
probability, 27–30, 33, 57, 106
Ptolemy, 68
Q
QBism, 65–69, 87–88
q-numbers, 107, 208n12
qualia, 184
quanta of light, 32–33
quanta of space, 34
quantum decoherence, 210n39, 215n77
quantum gravity, 35
quantum interference, 46–52, 53, 61, 80, 109
quantum leap, 5–10, 14
quantum mechanics, 81n, 139–40
quantum phenomena, 27, 35, 45, 52, 89, 107–8, 139–41, 161–63
quantum physics, 26–28, 33, 62, 92, 103, 141, 176, 182–83
quantum superposition, 45–46, 49–51, 52–53, 80–81, 95–96, 98, 109
quantum theory: applications of, 17–18; equation, 35–37, 106, 108–9; and granularity, 35; Heisenberg’s principle, 104–8; and the mind, 197; and mind/consciousness, 159–65, 180–81, 191; and philosophy, 135–38; relational interpretation, 74–81, 83, 87–88; significance of, xii–xiv
Quine, Willard, 137
R
reality, xiv, xvi, 67–68, 72–73, 78–81, 143–44, 188, 199, 200
Reichenbach, Hans, 22
relations/relational interpretation, 74–81, 87–88, 94–97, 99–100, 128, 142–49, 189–90
relative information, 102n, 168, 171–79, 214n68
relativity, 63, 82–83, 96, 128
relevant information, 103–4, 173–75
Rimini, Alberto, 211n48
Robinson, Kim Stanley, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, 134
Russell, Bertrand, 123
Russian Revolution, 118–19, 129–30
S
samsara, 153–54
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 22
Schrödinger, Erwin, and wave function, 20–29, 33, 37, 49, 57, 60, 69, 86–87
Schrödinger’s cat, 52–53, 54, 57–58, 61, 64–65, 80–81, 98
sensations, 121–22, 123
Shakespeare, William, The Tempest, 197–98
Shannon, Claude, 167–68, 173, 214n68
speed, relativity of, 82
Spinoza, Baruch, 29
Stalin, Josef, 132
Stern, Otto, 34
structural realism, 132, 143, 144, 153
Stürgkh, Karl von, 120
subjectivity, 184
superposition. See quantum superposition
system theory, 132–33
T
Taine, Hippolyte, 195–96
tetralemma, 153n
U
uncertainty principle, 104–8
V
van Fraassen, Bas, 142
Vedanta Hinduism, 22
Vienna Circle, 119
visual system, 192–95
von Neumann, John, 37
W
wave function (Ψ), 23–28, 33, 49, 51, 52–53, 57–66, 83, 87n, 208n18, 211n48, 213n64
wave mechanics, 21–26, 33, 69
Weber, Tullio, 211n48
Western philosophy, 142–45, 148, 153, 155
Wiener, Norbert, 132–33
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 155
Wu Ming, Proletkult, 134
Y
Yin, Juan, 90
Z
Zeilinger, Anton, 45–46, 61, 76, 97, 107
Zeitschrift für Physik (journal), 11
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About the Author
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the United States, and is currently directing the Quantum Gravity research group of the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, and The Order of Time are international bestsellers that have been translated into more than forty languages.
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* XP – PX = iħ
*In the original version, the bottle contains not a sleeping gas but poison, and the cat did not fall asleep: it died. I prefer not to play around with the death of a cat.
*The problem of quantum mechanics is the apparent contradiction between two laws of the theory: one describes what happens in a “measurement,” and the other in the “unitary” evolution, namely when there is no measurement. The relational interpretation is the idea that both are correct: the first regards the events relative to the systems in interaction, the second regards the events relative to other systems.
*This is the central technical feature of the relational interpretation. The probability of events realized with respect
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