Dr. Anthony Leggett will present a public lecture entitled: "Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics?" Dr. Leggett, 2003 Nobel Prize Winner, is with the Physics Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more information about Dr. Leggett, please visit: http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Leggett/.
Date: February 22, 2007, 7:30 pm Location: Brandi Recital Hall, Storer Hall, Gambier, Ohio 43022-9623 URL: http://calendar.kenyon.edu/main.php?view=event&eventid=1166111310666 ABSTRACT: Quantum mechanics has been enormously successful in describing nature at the atomic level, and most physicists believe that it is in principle the "whole truth" about the world even at the everyday level. However, such a view prima facie leads to a severe problem: in certain circumstances, the most natural interpretation of the theory implies that no definite outcome of an experiment occurs until the act of "observation". For many decades this problem was regarded as "merely philosophical", in the sense that it was thought that it had no consequences which could be tested in experiment. However, in the last dozen or so years the situation has changed very dramatically in this respect. Dr. Leggett will discuss the problem, some popular "resolutions" of it, the current experimental situation and prospects for the future. For more info: http://calendar.kenyon.edu/main.php?view=event&eventid=1166111310666 _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
