Quantum Mechanics’ Epistemic turn: from Objective reality to Knowledge documentary

Publié le 10 juillet 2025Mis à jour le 11 juillet 2025

This physics documentary explores the history of physics, focusing on the deep questions of epistemology and the philosophy of science. We examine the great debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr over the Copenhagen Interpretation, diving into concepts like anti-realism and the conflict between subjectivity vs objectivity.

We’ll unpack quantum paradoxes like Schrödinger’s Cat and Wigner’s Friend, and investigate proposed solutions from logical positivism to modern theories like QBism, which uses Bayesian inference, and the Relational QM of Carlo Rovelli. Our journey covers John Wheeler’s ‘It from Bit,’ the rise of quantum computing and information theory, and even challenges to realism like Bohmian mechanics with its pilot wave and hidden variables, or the Many-Worlds interpretation. We’ll even explore how emergent spacetime might arise from quantum entanglement and trace the philosophical lineage of these ideas back to Emmanuel Kant.

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Rovelli, C. (2021). Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution. Riverhead Books.

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