Towards a Quantum Culture: The Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

Session

Communications VI

11 Dec 2025, 10:50

Conveners

Communications VI

• Luisa Lovisetti

26. A Quite Elusive Century/Birthday: the 100th Anniversary of Quantum Mechanics, its Achievements and Criticalities, with a Case Study: Franco Selleri and his Philosophical and Sociopolitical Critical Standpoint

Luigi Romano

11/12/2025, 10:50

In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, this contribution introduces the different interpretations of quantum phenomena that have followed one another since 1900, together with the long debate that followed 1925, the annus mirabilis in which Quantum Mechanics was introduced, a powerful theory with numerous successes and multiple technological applications in our lives; but...

27. A Conceptual–Epistemological Account for a ‘Quantum Culture’

Sara Satanassi

11/12/2025, 11:10

Discussions of the Second Quantum Revolution are frequently framed in terms of technological development, standards, and workforce training. This contribution adopts a different perspective: it presents the Quantum Revolutions (QRs) as conceptual and epistemological revolutions that are reshaping the way physical knowledge is conceived, represented, and communicated. The presentation analyses...

28. The Solvay Science Project and the Milestones of the first Quantum Revolution

Alessio Rocci

11/12/2025, 11:30

The meeting patronized by the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay in Brussels, the first Solvay Council (1911), marked the beginning of the first quantum revolution. This event also led to the birth of the International Solvay Institute of Physics and its International Scientific Committee (ISC). Placed under the enlightened chairmanship of Hendrik A. Lorentz, the ISC organized five...

29. Leonardo’s Holistic Insight on Quantum Inseparability

Sara Taglialagamba

11/12/2025, 11:50

In the history of science, and of natural philosophy, action at a distance has been among the most controversial question, and the scientific community has repeatedly wavered between its acceptance and its rejection. Modern Galilean and Cartesian science were initially founded on its complete abandon, later reintroduced with Newton's principle of gravitation, refused again with the advent of...