A Realist Position in Physics

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everett himself invented it the 19 fifties, when he published his paper. He called it the relative state interpretation. What you see is only relative to the thing seeing it. This interactiona creates an impression of the measurement outcome that is intrinsically part of the relationship between the thing that is doing the measuring and the thing being observed. So i think there's er some sort sosm similarity is lo thereei i shouldn't o for you, but let me tryone second. I want to be realist about relational properties. Thereare a lot ofe quantities in physics which are relational. We know that they are. The velocity of an object is not a property of the object

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two great triumphs of twentieth-century theoretical physics. Unfortunately, they don't play well together -- despite years of effort, we currently lack a completely successful quantum theory of gravity, although there are some promising ideas out there. Carlo Rovelli is a pioneer of one of those ideas, loop quantum gravity, as well as the bestselling author of such books as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and the recent The Order of Time. We talk about how to make progress on this knotty problem, including whether string theory will play a role (Carlo thinks not). [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/seancarroll/rovelli.mp3" social_email="true" hashtag="mindscapepodcast" ] Carlo Rovelli is a professor of theoretical physics at the Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy of Aix-Marseille University in France. In 1988, he and Abhay Ashtekar and Lee Smolin introduced the idea of loop quantum gravity. He is also the author of the "relational" interpretation of quantum mechanics. Home page Wikipedia page Google Scholar publications Amazon.com author page Talk on The Physics and Philosophy of Time Twitter Download Episode See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.