Irreversibility and Cosmology and Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Mechanics

Mario Castagnino, Fabián H. Gaioli, Daniel Sforza

Jakub Slahounek

This work presents an ontological and phenomenological framework in which information, coherence, and physical structure emerge from an underlying entropic substrate. Within ZIP cosmology, information is not treated as fundamental but as a dynamically stabilized process arising from diffusion, coherence, and irreversible entropic selection. The framework remains compatible with standard quantum mechanics and cosmology while offering a clarified conceptual foundation for emergence, measurement, and stability. Files

James B. Hartle

Ewa Rydzyńska

It is proved that Bellert’s cosmological theory (with its mathematical apparatus) gives the same values of expectations of physical quantities as quantum mechanics. It is also shown that one of the uncertainty principles, fundamental in relativity quantum mechanics, holds in Bellert’s theory, too. Thanks to this fact, an approximation of the length of the quantum of time in Bellert’s theory is obtained.

Jeeva S. Anandan

The foundations of quantum mechanics has acquired tremendous importance in recent years for three reasons: First, a large number of experiments have tested concepts which previously were purely theoretical. Second, ideas from the foundations of quantum mechanics are being applied now to many fields such as condensed matter physics, quantum statistics, quantum cosmology and quantum gravity. Third, difficulties in constructing a quantum cosmology and theory of gravity have made many theorists examine the foundations of quantum theory to see if quantum mechanics itself needs to be modified. Very distinguished physicists from around the world gave talks on their recent research on a variety of theoretical and experimental aspects on these subjects at this conference.

G. C. Ghirardi