What is so unusual about Antony Valentini? Just this: he’s resurrected a theory that undoes the central tenet of quantum mechanics, and gives relativity theory a good punt to left field as well.
The incompatibility of relativity and quantum mechanics is of great interest, particularly in light of recent advances in string theory.
For the first time it is feasible to suggest that we could follow quantum weirdness as far as everyday dimensions, and find out whether anything new intrudes.
In order to get a consistent picture of nature we need to use quantum mechanics to describe the geometry of spacetime. In other words, we should construct a quantum theory of gravity.
A possible answer to John Wheeler’s question: Why the quantum?
Find out more about how quantum computing might be done.
As a theoretical physicist, one would really like to elucidate the mathematical structure of this transition and to identify the essential features of quantum mechanics that make it so robust and inevitable.
By throwing away information in a particular way, we are then able to alter the quantum mechanical outcomes.
There is a hope that there will appear a sort of meta-unification, in which the welter of unified theories are themselves unified, and shown to be merely alternate languages for the same underlying structure.
Four thought-experiments that are intended to set limits to the scope of quantum mechanics.