Franco Selleri
(1936-2013)
Franco Selleri was an Italian theoretical physicist who wrote detailed accounts of several "paradoxes" in quantum mechanics. He sided with "realists" in what he called the "older" generation of quantum physicists,
Max Planck, and
Arnold Sommerfeld, and some of the "middle" generation,
Niels Bohr,
Max Born,
Albert Einstein,
Paul Ehrenfest, and
Ernst Schrödinger, over those he called the "younger" generation and architects of what he called the "
Copenhagen-Göttingen Interpretation" of quantum mechanics, including
Louis de Broglie,
Wolfgang Pauli,
Werner Heisenberg,
Pascual Jordan, and
Paul Dirac.
To be sure, the middle generation Bohr, at Copenhagen, and Born, at Göttingen were the guiding lights of the radical young founders of the acausal, indeterministic, and statistical "quantum mechanics," and the middle generation Schrödinger is better grouped with the conservatives Planck and Einstein in their hopes for a return to a deterministic, causal and objective reality independent of subjective human experience and the "
consciousness of the observer."
Selleri wrote and edited several books from the beginning of interests in the "foundations of quantum mechanics" inspired mostly by
John Bell's theorem about inequalities in the 1960's based on
David Bohm's 1952 search for "hidden variables," which were suggested by Einstein's 1935 "
EPR paradox" about
nonlocal correlations between distant
separated particles.
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