
Published online:
19 May 2022
Published in print:
07 March 2022
Online ISBN:
9780191880087
Print ISBN:
9780198844495
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15.1 Leˊon Rosenfeld 15.1 Leˊon Rosenfeld
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15.2 John Wheeler and the Everett Interpretation 15.2 John Wheeler and the Everett Interpretation
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15.3 From DeWitt’s Endorsement to the Oxford Workshops 15.3 From DeWitt’s Endorsement to the Oxford Workshops
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Chapter
15 The Interpretation Debate and Quantum Gravity
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Alexander S. Blum,
Alexander S. Blum
Physics, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)
Bernadette Lessel
Bernadette Lessel
Physics, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)
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393–416
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Published:19 May 2022
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Blum, Alexander S., and Bernadette Lessel, 'The Interpretation Debate and Quantum Gravity', in Olival Freire (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations (2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 May 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198844495.013.0016, accessed 3 May 2025.
Abstract
We discuss the relation between of the debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics and the search for a quantum theory of gravity, from its beginnings in the 1950s and 60s (Léon Rosenfeld’s rejection of the quantum gravity program, John Wheeler’s temporary endorsement of the Everett interpretation for cosmological reasons) to the surge of interest in this connection that began in the mid-1980s, resulting from a series of Oxford Symposia on Quantum Gravity.
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