Dear colleagues,
Please find details related to the CERN Colloquium on Thursday 21 March in Main Auditorium (500-1-001) at 16h30:
The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
by Sean Carroll (Caltech)
Abstract:
One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which observational results
can only be predicted probabilistically rather than with certainty. Yet, after decades in which the theory has been successfully used on an everyday basis, most physicists would agree that we still don't truly understand what it means. I will talk about the
source of this puzzlement, and explain why an increasing number of physicists are led to an apparently astonishing conclusion: that the world we experience is constantly branching into different versions, representing the different possible outcome of quantum
measurements. This could have important consequences for quantum gravity and the emergence of spacetime.
Organised by: W.
Lerche/TH-SP
Please note that a Webcast will be available for this talk.
Kind regards,
Angela Ricci