Tractatus Quanticus

8 Jul 2026, 13:40
40m
ECAP Laboratory Building

ECAP Laboratory Building

Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Straße 2 91058 Erlangen
invited talk 9 Thu

Speaker

Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University)

Description

With Niccolò Covoni and Andrea di Biagio, we are finishing a book merging our previous works in philosophy and mathematics, on the best way to think the relational view of quantum mechanics. To this aim, we have re-edited Wittgenstein celebrated "Tractatus", taking the Quantum into account. I illustrate our results, synthesized in the 7 propositions:
1. The world is everything that is the case from a perspective.
2. My knowledge about the world is a particular kind of perspective.
3. Perspectives themselves are facts, when considered from another perspective.
4. Facts can be expressed as values of variables, which are ways systems interact.
5. Perspectives are transparent to one another, because they are facts.
6. There is nothing wrong in circularity.
7. What we cannot have information about, we must pass over in silence.

Authors

Dr Andrea DiBiagio (IQOQI) Dr Niccolò Covoni (Urbino University)

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