The message of the Quantum
In the talk I will argue that the quantum state is a representation of information obtained by observation of the apparatus used in an experiment. All that information is therefore classical. Quantum states are therefore just a representation of the observer's knowledge. Therefore, there is no measurement problem as the results of a measurement just imply that the observer's knowledge, i.e. the quantum state, have to be updated. I will argue along some experiments like the two-slit inference, the correlations of entangled states, and macroscopic interference.
About the speaker
Anton Zeilinger (*1945) is an Austrian physicist who is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Vienna and a senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna. His research focuses on the foundations of quantum mechanics, especially entanglement. After receiving his doctorate in 1971 from the Vienna University of Technology, he held guest affiliations at MIT, Oxford, the Technical University of Munich, and the Collège de France. For his scientific achievements, Zeilinger has been awarded, among others, the Wolf Prize, the King Faisal Prize, the Order Pour le Mérite, and the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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