Philosophy and Physics - Part 1

Update: 2025-03-17

Description

What does one mean by philosophy of physics? How can philosophy help us understand the physical world?

In particular, when it comes to quantum mechanics, human intuition seems to break down. Is the wave function real, or is it just a construct we use to make sense of experiments? Is reality truly based on probabilities? In this episode, Axel Maas and Philip Berghofer from the University of Graz will guide us through the challenges of reconnecting the physical world with the models we use to describe it.

References:

Axel Maas on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/axelmaas.bsky.social

Axel Maas's webpage: https://particle.uni-graz.at/en/structures-and-observables/

Philip Berghofer's webpages: https://uni-graz.academia.edu/PhilippBerghofer, https://philippberghofer.com/

Some slides about philosophy of physics: https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_Persoenliche_Webseite/maas_axel/urania24.pdf

Book "Gauge symmetries, symmetry breaking, and gauge-invariant approaches": https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00616