{"id":9474,"date":"2020-05-05T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2021-04-06T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:31:10","slug":"from-the-vaults-parallel-universes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-parallel-universes\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Parallel Universes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Fay Dowker\/ Eleanor Knox \/ Simon Saunders<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the recording<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20171025_ParalellUniverses.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000\">or on<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZcbXJ7appIE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat alive or dead? This thought experiment was devised to illustrate a fundamental puzzle in quantum mechanics. A radical solution is that the cat is both alive and dead, but in different, parallel universes. This is the \u2018many-worlds interpretation\u2019 of quantum mechanics and our panel of philosophers and physicists discuss why it is controversial and its strange consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fay_Dowker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fay Dowker<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/artshums\/depts\/philosophy\/people\/staff\/academic\/knox.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eleanor Knox<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Philosophy, King&#8217;s College London<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/users.ox.ac.uk\/~lina0174\/Saunders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Saunders<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Philosophy of Physics, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/jonathan-birch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Birch<\/a><br \/>\nAssociate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE &amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organized in conjunction with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebsps.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Society for the Philosophy of Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on\u00a023 October 2017 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fay Dowker, Eleanor Knox, and Simon Saunders discuss the strange consequences of the \u2018many-worlds interpretation\u2019 of quantum mechanics and why it&#8217;s so controversial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":10415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/4-MI-STF.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2sO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15485,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions\/15485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}