Quantum mechanics of seeing

Harish Parthasarathy

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.’

Shantena Augusto Sabbadini

Shantena Sabbadini takes us on a journey from the indigenous mindset, seeing humankind embedded in the world, into the scientific perspective, that separates the passive observer from a mechanical universe. He then proposes that the dilemmas facing quantum theory may be solved by seeing that subject and object are created in every act that leaves a trace outside itself. He then compares this double state of unnamed potential and named being, with Laozi's Tao.

Shan Gao

Dennis Dieks

R. B. Cosgrove

The relativistic free particle system in 1+1 dimensions is formulated as a ``bi-Hamiltonian system''. One Hamiltonian generates ordinary time translations, and another generates (essentially) boosts. Any observer, accelerated or not, sees evolution as the continuous unfolding of a canonical transformation which may be described using the two Hamiltonians. When the system is quantized both Hamiltonians become Hermitian operators in the standard positive definite inner product. Hence, each observer sees the evolution of the wave function as the continuous unfolding of a unitary transformation in the standard positive definite inner product. The result appears to be a consistent single particle interpretation of relativistic quantum mechanics. This interpretation has the feature that the wave function is observer dependent, and observables have non-local character, similar to what one might expect in quantum gravity.