Simultaneity and uncertainty: physical issues or epistemological analysis?
Speaker:
Prof. dr. Vincenzo Fano, University of Urbino.
Date:
Tuesday 4th June, 2002
Einstein's 1916 popular exposition of relativity favours a misunderstanding
of the simultaneity criticism. For it presents the latter as an
epistemological analysis, in spite of a physical phenomenon. In his 1927
paper Heisenberg applies a similar argument to quantum mechanics,
maintaining that there are a priori reasons, connected with the experimental
possibilities, to introduce the commutation relations. On the contrary, the
uncertainty is a consequence of the wave-particle dualism and it is not
possible to interpret it in perturbative terms, but only presupposing
quantum theory in general. Like simultaneity, uncertainty is a physical
issue and not an epistemological analysis.
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