Carlo rovelli
Carlo Rovelli (Verona, 1956) is a theoretical physicist, historian of physics and philosopher of science. Along with Lee Smolin, Abhay Ashtekar and Ted Jacobson, he is one of the founders of the theory called "loop quantum gravity." He is a member of the French University Institute and of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, as well as being responsible for the quantum gravity team at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Aix-Marseille. Prior to his current academic position at Aix-Marseille, Rovelli held postdoctoral positions at the University of Rome, at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste and at Yale University; from 1990 to 2000 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 2019, he was included by Foreign Policy magazine in the list of the 100 most influential thinkers in the world (Global Thinkers).
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Relational quantum mechanics: the continuity of physics and philosophy beyond instrumentalism
Relational quantum mechanics (RQM) solves the measurement problem by preserving both theoretical properties of locality and completeness, all without additional structure or many-worlds. The states described by a quantum-mechanical measurement (system S) are rather relative to the observer (system S '), not absolute. RQM in fact implies the renunciation of an ontology based on objects and properties and presupposes a participatory universe (in many respects similar to a material information theory), but does not lead to antirealism or idealism insofar as the system S ' it does not have to be constituted by a conscious mind: it could be any other system.
Consequently, we should abandon the idea that there is or could be a "view from nowhere" or "from no time" and concentrate on central statements about the possibility that an observer has knowledge about the events of another observer, solving in the direction of a causality without determinism the problem of EPR.