Towards a Quantum Culture: The Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

Session

Communications V

11 Dec 2025, 09:40

Conveners

Communications V

• Enrico Giannetto

23. Between Political Orthodoxy and Personal Conviction: Terletsky’s Role in the Debate on Quantum Mechanics

Andrea Battocchio

11/12/2025, 10:00

In the 1950s, a heated debate unfolded in the USSR regarding the philosophy of quantum mechanics. Yakov Petrovich Terletsky, a professor of theoretical physics at Moscow State University and a member of the local bureau of the Communist Party, actively participated in this debate, questioning the Copenhagen interpretation and the principle of complementarity. His critique had significant...