Time and Matter 2010

Session

Philosophical Perspectives on Time and Fundamental Physics

8 Oct 2010, 09:30

Hotel Splendid

24. Cosmic time with quantum matter?

Prof. Henrik Zinkernagel (University of Granada, Spain)

08/10/2010, 09:30

In this talk the physical foundations for setting up the cosmological standard model with a cosmic time parameter are examined. In particular, I discuss the role of Weyl’s principle which asserts that cosmic matter moves according to certain regularity requirements. I argue that although Weyl’s principle is often not explicitly mentioned in modern standard texts on cosmology, it is in fact...

25. Epistemic-ontic interpretation of quantum mechanics: quantum information theory and Husserl’s phenomenology?

Dr Tina Bilban (IQOQI Vienna. Austria)

08/10/2010, 10:30

The opposition between Einstein and Bohr has been often described as the opposition between an epistemological and an ontological approach towards quantum mechanics. Although both frameworks (ontological and epistemological) have been later recognized as supplementary rather than contradictory, they have stayed more or less isolated from one another. An interesting possibility for exceeding...