Quantum Mechanics and Physical Reality

Niels Henrik David Bohr

Hugh C. Wolfe

Horst-Heino von Borzeszkowski, Renate Wahsner

Peter Verheyen

Quantum mechanics: Are we seeing reality as it is? Dr Peter Verheyen from the Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University examines whether quantum mechanics and information serve as the fundamental descriptions of reality. Anton Zeilinger, Alain Aspect, and John F. Clauser were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to Quantum Mechanics, establishing QM as the foundation of reality. ‘Einstein was wrong, God plays dice, Quantum Mechanics rules.’

Krobot, Bojan

Quantum mechanics (QM) is the most successful theory in the history of physics, yet it remains conceptually incomplete. Two key puzzles—the measurement problemand anomalies of subjective time-pointto a deeper layer of reality that transcends classical physics. The DSRR (Dynamic Subjective Rendering of Reality) hypothesis proposes that reality is not a static structure but an informational process dynamically regulated by consciousness. The quantum collapse is interpreted as an informational response to a demand for experience, while the subjective stretching of time arises from a change in the frequency of consciousness's informational update—the parameter νz. DSRR thus connects physics, psychophysics, and the philosophy of information into a single, experimentally verifiable framework.

Jerome Manyahi

For three centuries Newtonian mechanics had been firmly established as a valid theory for the understanding of physical reality; if one understands the laws of physics, then one understands the whole universe. Classical physicists had contented themselves with the search for regularities in measurements and in the physical world. Irregularities were regarded as noises that interfered with the deterministic picture of physical reality. However, from 1900s onwards with the quantum hypothesis, physicists had begun to recognize that the physics of Newton and Maxwell were inadequate for the understanding of all of the physical reality. For example, the interaction of radiation with matter could not be explained from classical physics. This dilemma led to the discovery of quantum mechanics. In this article we explore the challenges that students face in understanding quantum mechanics that arises from paradigm shift in the mode of reasoning about the physical world. The description of physical reality in general and quantum reality in particular requires that we shift our mode of reasoning from classical Boolean logic to quantum non Boolean logic.