Time, Quantum and Information

Front Matter....Pages I-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and The Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Society....Pages 17-23
The Role of the Physicist in the Nuclear Age....Pages 25-26
“The Atomic Bomb Reveals the Political Responsibility of Science”....Pages 27-58
On the Unfathomableness of Consciousness by Consciousness....Pages 59-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Introduction: From the Atomic Nucleus to Cosmic Vortex Systems....Pages 75-81
The Origins of Nuclear Physics and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Semi-Empirical Mass Formula....Pages 83-114
Thermonuclear Processes in Stars and Stellar Neutrinos....Pages 115-134
Comets: Fascinating Cosmic Objects....Pages 135-143
The Spectrum of Turbulence....Pages 145-157
From Dust Disks to Planetary Systems....Pages 159-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Science and Its Relation to Nature in C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Natural Philosophy....Pages 173-185
C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Philosophy of Science and the Nature of Time....Pages 187-202
What Is Missing? — The Fundamental Role of Time in C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Conception of Physics and Some Insights from Modern Neuroscience....Pages 203-217
Irreversibility via Semichaos....Pages 219-233
Remarks on Fractional Time....Pages 235-241
The Dynamics of Modelling....Pages 243-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
An Introduction to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Program for a Reconstruction of Quantum Theory....Pages 263-279
Interpreting Quantum Mechanics — in the Light of Quantum Logic....Pages 281-290
On the Interpretation of Quantum Theory — from Copenhagen to the Present Day....Pages 291-299
Epistemic and Ontic Quantum Realities....Pages 301-321
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Information and Fundamental Elements of the Structure of Quantum Theory....Pages 323-354
Multiple Quantization in Fock Space....Pages 355-360
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
The Ur-Hypothesis....Pages 363-365
The Momentum Eigenstates and the Lorentz-Invariant State....Pages 367-371
C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Reconstruction of Physics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow....Pages 373-383
The Operational Structure of Spacetime....Pages 385-395
Ur Theory and Space-Time Structure....Pages 397-407
Weizsäcker’s Ur Theory — A Cosmological Point of View....Pages 409-419
Ur Theory and Cosmological Phase Transition....Pages 421-425
Phase Transitions in an Expanding Universe: Paul Roman’s Models and Some Remarks on Entropy....Pages 427-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-454