Fall 2013 Physics Colloquium

November 15; PAS 224, 3pm

Jenann Ismael
University of Arizona

Non-separability, Individuation, and Space-Time

Following a suggestion of David Bohm’s, I will explore the possibility that phenomena associated with entanglement and complementarity in quantum mechanics intimate a fundamentally non-spatiotemporal ordering to reality by looking at low-dimensional examples of systems that reproduce the relevant phenomena. I argue that this is a relatively unexplored path to explaining quantum correlations and give some philosophical motivation.