William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
What Entanglement Might be Telling US: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time
Jenann Ismael,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Arizona,
A pair of simple visualizable, lower-dimensional examples that reproduce features associated with entanglement and complementarity in quantum mechanics will be used to make an intuitive case that quantum phenomena intimate a fundamentally non-spatio-temporal ordering to reality. The examples (involving fish-tanks and kaleidoscopes) can be understood without any technical knowledge, and the discussion will focus on questions about individuation and the status of space that should be of interest even to those that have no specific interest in quantum mechanics.
For more information, please contact Fran Tise by phone at Ext. 3609 or by email at [email protected].
Event Series
History Seminar Series