This event is from the archives of The Notice Board. The event has already taken place and the information contained in this post may no longer be relevant or accurate.
An Entangled History: EPR, Bell’s Theorem, & Beyond
Kent Peacock
Department of Philosophy
University of Lethbridge
Thursday March 12th, 2015
1:40 pm, Room C640, U Hall
Abstract:
In 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen (EPR) published an enigmatic paper entitled, “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Reality Be Considered Complete?” This ended up being one of the most influential physics papers of the 20th century, even though, ironically, it did not prove exactly what Einstein himself hoped it would prove. I will review the tangled history of the EPR paper from the early debates between Einstein and Bohr to modern work on entanglement in quantum information theory, and I will argue that there is still much to be learned from EPR’s profound and farreaching thought experiment.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Contact:
Catherine Drenth | catherine.drenth@uleth.ca
