Quantum Physics and Cosmology

Hervé Zwirn is a physicist and epistemologist. He is currently Research Associate at the Centre Borelli of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay and the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Paris, France. His research focuses on the foundations of quantum physics and complex systems.

• Introduction xiiiHervé ZWIRNChapter 1. A Brief Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and a Review of Interpretations 1Hervé ZWIRNChapter 2. Bohrian Realism 15Thomas RYCKMANChapter 3. The Many-worlds View of Quantum Mechanics 33Lev VAIDMANChapter 4. Probability in Everett 53Jeffrey A. BARRETTChapter 5. Quantum Theory from a Pragmatist Perspective 79Richard HEALEYChapter 6. The Role of the Observer: Convivial Solipsism 109Hervé ZWIRNChapter 7. Copenhagenish Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics 133David SCHMID, Yìlè YING and Matthew S. LEIFERChapter 8. Dark Energy 171Nathalie PALANQUE-DELABROUILLEChapter 9. Dark Matter 193Françoise COMBESChapter 10. Gravitational Waves 219Matteo BARSUGLIA and Simone MASTROGIOVANNIChapter 11. What is the Energy of the Vacuum? 239Bruno MANSOULIÉChapter 12. Temporality in Relativistic Space–time 257Marc LACHIÈZE-REYChapter 13. A History of Thought Experiments in Quantum Gravity 275Thiago HARTZ and Olival FREIRE JUNIORChapter 14. Possibility in Physics 303Baptiste LE BIHAN, Emilia MARGONI and Annica VIESERList of Authors 323Index 325