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.