Einstein’s Local Realism vs. Bohr’s Instrumental Anti-Realism: The Debate Between Two Titans in the Quantum Theory Arena



Título del documento: Einstein’s Local Realism vs. Bohr’s Instrumental Anti-Realism: The Debate Between Two Titans in the Quantum Theory Arena
Revista: Griot (Amargosa)
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000511943
ISSN: 2178-1036
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, Tocantins. Brasil
Año:
Volumen: 21
Número: 2
Paginación: 332-348
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés The objective of this article is to demonstrate how the historical debate between materialism and idealism, in the field of Philosophy, extends, innew clothes,to the field of Quantum Physics characterized by realism and anti-realism. For this, we opted for a debate, also historical, between the realism of Albert Einstein, for whom reality exists regardless of theexistence of the knowing subject, and Niels Bohr, for whom we do not have access to the ultimate reality of the matter, unless conditioning itto the existence of an observer endowed with rationality, position adopted in the Interpretation of Complementarity (1927)–posture that was expanded in 1935 when Bohr assumed a "relationalist" conception, according to which the quantum state is defined by the relationship between the quantum object and the entire measuring device.This is an extremely important debate, as it further consolidates the results of nascent Quantum Mechanics, guaranteeing Bohr the leadership of the orthodoxy based on the interpretation of complementarity. Here, when dealing with Quantum Theory, we will not make any distinction between the terms Quantum Physics, Quantum Theory or Quantum Mechanics. The entire discussion will be held under the name "Quantum Theory". Theory that tries to analyze and describe the behavior of physical systems of reduced dimensions, close to the sizes of molecules, atoms and subatomic particles. We hope that the reader will appreciate the genius of these two titans in this field of Physics whenthey magnificently formulate the arguments that support the object of their defenses
Disciplinas: Filosofía
Palabras clave: Metafísica,
Filosofía de la ciencia,
Doctrinas y corrientes filosóficas,
Einstein, Albert,
Bohr, Niels,
Realismo,
Anti-realismo,
Mecánica cuántica
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