Towards a Quantum Culture: The Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

Session

Communications IV

10 Dec 2025, 18:10

Conveners

Communications IV

• Marco Giliberti

22. Conceiving Light: How Bohr’s Epistemic Framing of Light Linked Chemistry, Phototherapy, Ophthalmology, and Quantum Mechanics in 192-1932

Mor Lumbroso

10/12/2025, 18:10

Five years after introducing his ‘complementarity’ concept in 1927, Niels Bohr gave an unexpected address at the International Congress on Light Therapy titled ‘Light and Life’. In the lecture, Bohr used the concept of light to bridge new knowledge from quantum physics with the life-sciences, and noted that “light is our principal tool for observation.” What led Bohr to present an...

24. From ‘It from Bit’ to Relational Quantum Mechanics: Wheeler and Rovelli in Historical and Conceptual Perspective

Niccolò Covoni

10/12/2025, 18:30

The late twentieth century witnessed a profound reorientation in the conceptual foundations of physics, driven by renewed attention to questions of information, observation, and the nature of physical reality. At the heart of this transformation stand two figures whose work, though developed in distinct contexts and with different motivations, converges on a shared insight: that physical...

25. John Wheeler's Quantum Ecumenism: From Niels Bohr to the Cosmological ‘It from Bit’

Stefano Furlan

10/12/2025, 18:50

In the early 1970s, following the crisis of the geometrodynamical view of the cosmos inspired by general relativity, John Wheeler (1911-2008) suggested a few provocative ideas about the role of the observer or, as he called it, the "observer-participator". While this notion has often been portrayed as a radicalization, or perhaps an ontologization, of Bohr's views, its genesis was actually...