Välkommen till en föreläsning med professor Ana María Cetto, med titeln "Towards a realist view of the quantum phenomenon". Ana María Cetto är verksam vid Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, och har varit involverad i två organisationer som har erhållit Nobels fredspris.
The elegant and powerful mathematical formalism of quantum theory has brought with it an abandonment of principles on which the remainder of physics rests, such as realism, determinism, locality, objectivity or descriptiveness. This talk offers a look beyond the formal apparatus, by exposing a ‘subquantum’ theoretical description of the quantum phenomenon. Consideration of the effects of the random zero-point radiation field on the particle dynamics takes us to the realm of stochastic electrodynamics, which has been developed to provide a concrete local realistic explanation of the quantum behavior of matter. By analyzing the effects of the interplay of the background field and radiation reaction, the theory offers an explanation for atomic stability, the electron spin, entanglement, and the quantum operator formalism, within an approach that supports the principles of determinism, causality, and objective reality.
Ana María Cetto has a Master in Biophysics from Harvard, and Master and Ph.D. in Physics from UNAM. She does research on the foundations of quantum mechanics at the Institute of Physics and teaches at the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM. She has published 25 books and 272 research articles and has been inter alia Director of the Faculty of Sciences, the Museum of Light and the Mexican Journal of Physics. She is co-founder of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (OWSD), and served as consultant to UNESCO for the World Conference on Science, member of the Governing Board of the United Nations University and ICSU Secretary General. She is the founding President of LATINDEX, President of the Mexican Physical Society (SMF), Coordinator of the Luces sobre la Ciudad project and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Diplomacy and Heritage of Science. She has received, among others, the prizes for the Development of Physics and for Scientific Research from the SMF, and in 2003 was named Woman of the Year in Mexico. As a member of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Conferences she participated in the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize and as Deputy Director General of the IAEA she participated in the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.