Complementarity and Cosmology

Menas C. Kafatos

Arun Bala

Natalia K. Kisel

The paper is devoted to the research of the role of the anthropal cosmological principle (ACP) in the formation of the post-non-classical scientific rationality. The comparative analysis of ACP and the principles of complementarity and observability in non-classical science has been made, the methodological significance of ACP in the formation of the communicative strategy of post-non-classical science has been found.

Tatyana P. Shestakova

It is generally accepted that the Copenhagen interpretation is inapplicable to quantum cosmology, by contrast with the many worlds interpretation. I shall demonstrate that the two basic principles of the Copenhagen interpretation, the principle of wholeness and the principle of complementarity, do make sense in quantum gravity, since we can judge about quantum gravitational processes in the very early Universe by their vestiges in our macroscopic Universe. I shall present the extended phase space approach to quantum gravity and show that it can be interpreted in the spirit of the Everett’s “relative states” formulation, while there is no contradiction between the “relative states” formulation and the mentioned basic principles of the Copenhagen interpretation.

Arun Bala

David Finkelstein