Lars Becker-Larsen, "The Copenhagen Interpretation"
Lars Becker-Larsen presents his film The Copenhagen Interpretation
from 2004, which has received excellent reviews in Denmark as well as
internationally. The presentation will be followed by comments on the
film from the points of view of physics, philosophy and the history of
science.
Lars Becker-Larsen describes his film as follows:
The world cannot be so crazy, Albert Einstein is said to have stated
about the philosophical lesson that Niels Bohr derived from quantum
physics. This lesson is known as the Copenhagen Interpretation, and
since it was first presented in the 1920s, it has been a bone of
contention. To this day, prominent physicists disagree about the
far-reaching consequences of the Copenhagen Interpretation and what is
to be understood as reality. In Vienna, the recent realisation in
practice of some of the central thought experiments of quantum physics
has demonstrated clearly that the tiniest building blocks of all things
constitute a paradoxically different world. Now the strange quantum
phenomena can be ascertained even at great distances, and physicists
hope that they can be utilised in a future generation of extremely fast
computers.
The film will be followed by ten-minute comments by -
Eugene Polzik, professor of physics at the Quantum Optics Lab at the Niels Bohr
Institute;
Carl Henrik Koch, associate professor of philosophy at the
University of Copenhagen;
Helge Kragh, professor of the history of
science at the University of Aarhus.
After the comments, there will be
a general discussion. The event is expected to last approximately two
hours.
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