Fifty Years Later: When Gedanken Experiments Become Real Experiments

Dipankar Home, S. Sengupta

Luiz Carlos Ryff

Michael J. Devine

Herman Feshbach, 哲男 松井, Alexandra Oleson

Overview, Victor Weisskopf Niels Bohr and the development of physics, A.Pais on the origins of the Copenhagen interpretation, Arthur I.Miller Niels Bohr and atomic physics today, Daniel Kleppner condensed matter physics - does quantum mechanics matter?, Michael E.Fisher nuclear physics - comments and reflections, Herman Feshbach the new ether, J.D.Bjorken recent developments in cosmology, George Field black holes and the foundations of quantum mechanics, Gerard't Hooft do black holes emit black body radiation?, T.D.Lee quarternionic quantum field theory, Stephen L.Adler light and life - Niels Bohr's legacy to contemporary biology, Gunther S.Stent Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality, J.S.Bell fifty years later - when gedanken experiments become real experiments, Alain Aspect Philippe Grangier physical and philosophical issues in the Bohr-Einstein debate, Abner Shimony the Soviet reaction to Bohr's quantum mechanics, Loren R.Graham Niels Bohr and the first principles of arms control, Martin J.Sherwin American attitudes on security - comments, John Steinbruner science, technology and the arms race - European perspectives, Edoardo Amaldi.

Franklin E. Schroeck

This conference was organized under the aegis of the University of Joensuu “to review the impact of the E.P.R. argument on the development of quantum theory, to discuss the philosophical implications of recent experimental and theoretical results on the E.P.R. problem, and to survey some other recent trends in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and classical mechanics.” There were approximately fifty lectures (and another fifty offered), two panel discussions, with over one hundred and fifty participants representing twenty five countries, which is remarkable since one physicist reviewing the original proposal for the conference termed E.P.R. as “the problem that is not a problem!”

JR Minkel