Parallel Universes

Is Schrödinger’s 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 ‘many-worlds interpretation’ of quantum mechanics and our panel of philosophers and physicists will discuss why it is controversial and its strange consequences.

Fay Dowker is Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London.

Eleanor Knox is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, King’s College London.

Simon Saunders is Professor of Philosophy of Physics, University of Oxford.

Jonathan Birch is a Fellow in the The Forum; Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE

The Forum for European Philosophy (@ForumPhilosophy) is an educational charity that organises a full and varied programme of philosophy and interdisciplinary events in the UK.

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