What Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics?

Relational Quantum Mechanics

Relational Quantum Mechanics

In this internship report, we present Carlo Rovelli’s relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, focusing on its historical and conceptual roots. A critical analysis of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument is then put forward, which suggests that the phenomenon of ‘quantum non-locality’ is an artifact of the orthodox interpretation, and not a physical effect. A speculative discussion of th...

An OWL Ontology for Quantum Mechanics

An OWL ontology for quantum mechanics is presented in short. The motivation for its development, structure and characteristic features are depicted. In particular, some essential concepts from the ontology are described. Finally, some problems encountered during the development of the ontology are discussed.

Quantum mechanics: ontology and information

Quantum theory shows that natural laws cannot be understood as ruling single events since the latter occur randomly. Nevertheless, the physical world shows everywhere order whose source cannot be represented by the latter. It is shown that this order is due to the presence of quantum correlations. Since their effect is to reduce the space of the possible events, they can be considered as causal...

Smallest Relational Mechanics Model of Quantum Cosmology

Relational particle mechanics are models in which there is, overall, no time, position, orientation (nor, sometimes, scale). They are useful for whole-universe modelling the setting for quantum cosmology. This note concerns 3 particles in 1d in shape-scale split variables. The scale part parallels certain Friedmann equations, while in this note the shape part involves functions on the circle. T...