PROGRAM

ImPhys Seminar - Lev Vaidman ( Tel Aviv University, ): "The many - worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics"

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12:30 hrs

 

Prof. Vaidman is the author of the section on the Many- Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, also called the Everett Interpretation, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta editor, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/qm-manyworlds/. He is also the author of the famous Elitzur/Vaidman paper on non-demolition measurements in quantum mechanics (the “ bomb tester” ) and of papers on the teleportation of quantum states.

This is the public guest lecture of Prof. Pieter Kruit’s yearly master’s course on interpretations of quantum mechanics and will give ample opportunity for discussion of this particular interpretation