Relational quantum mechanics
Mecánica cuántica relacional
- Date
- 1994 · confidence high
- Place
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Credited to
- Carlo Rovelli
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
An interpretation of quantum mechanics that treats a system's state as relational — the relation between observer and system — proposed by Carlo Rovelli and inspired by special relativity.
What it led to
- opened an alternative line of quantum interpretation to Copenhagen and many-worlds
- influenced later approaches to loop quantum gravity
- stimulated philosophical debate on the observer's role in quantum physics