Rovelli's World
Abstract
Carlo Rovelli’s inspiring “Relational Quantum Mechanics” serves several aims at once: it provides a new vision of what the world of quantum mechanics is like, and it offers a program to derive the theory’s formalism from a set of simple postulates pertaining to information processing. I propose here to concentrate entirely on the former, to explore the world of quantum mechanics as Rovelli depicts it. It is a fascinating world in part because of Rovelli’s reliance on the information-theory approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and in part because its presentation involves taking sides on a fundamental divide within philosophy itself.
- Publication:
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Foundations of Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10701-009-9326-5
- Bibcode:
- 2010FoPh...40..390V
- Keywords:
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- Carlo Rovelli;
- Einstein–Podolski–Rosen;
- Quantum information;
- Relational quantum mechanics