Programme

Quantum Potential Meets The Dynamic Universe
An international workshop at the University College London, May 16-17, 2025
Darwin building, Room B15, University College London (UCL), Gower Street, London WCE 6BT
Friday, 16 May 2025

Darwin building, Room B15, University College London (UCL), Gower Street, London WCE 6BT

9:00 – 9:30 Coffee

9:30 – 10:00 WELCOME, PURPOSE & LOGISTICS
Peter Van Reeth, University College London and Paavo Pylkkänen, University of Helsinki 

TOPIC 1, Dynamic Universe 1

10:00 - 10:30 
Tuomo Suntola, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo: 
Introduction to the Dynamic Universe (DU), part 1

10:30 - 10:50 Discussion

TOPIC 2, Dark Energy

11:00 – 11:30
Ofer Lahav, University College London: 
Is Dark energy evolving?

11:30 – 12:15 Discussion + coffee 
with comments by Petri Lievonen and Tuomo Suntola                  

TOPIC 3, Bridging Quantum and Classical Physics

12:15 – 13:00
Tarja Kallio-Tamminen, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo: 
Clarifying the content of Planck’s constant

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (provided on site)

14:00-14:50
Petri Lievonen, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo: 
DU and the Dirac equation                                                                                              

TOPIC 4, The Quantum Potential Approach

15:00 – 15:50
Chris Dewdney, University of Portsmouth: 
What have we learnt from de Broglie-Bohm trajectories?

16:00 – 16:30
Paavo Pylkkänen, University of Helsinki and University of Skövde:
Can active information solve key problems in the Bohm theory?

16:30 – 16:45 
Comment by Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex           

16:45 – 18:00 General discussion            

19:00-21:30   
WORKSHOP DINNER FOR INVITED GUESTS 
Woburn Place Dining Room, Hilton London Euston, 
17 - 18 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HT 

Saturday, 17 May 2025

Darwin building, Room B15, University College London (UCL), Gower Street, London WCE 6BT

9.30 - 10.00 Coffee

TOPIC 5, Physics at Scales where Quantum Theory and General Relativity Overlap

10:00 – 11:00
Ivette Fuentes, University of Southampton and Wolfson College, University of Oxford:
Clocks in the overlap of quantum theory and relativity 

TOPIC 6, Dynamic Universe 2

11:00 - 11:30 
Tuomo Suntola, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo:
Clocks in the Dynamic Universe

11:30 - 11:50 Discussion + coffee

TOPIC 7, Dark Matter 

12:00 – 12:30
Chamkaur Ghag University College London:
Dark matter

TOPIC 8, Non-Classical Gravity

12:30 – 13:00
Sougato Bose, University College London:
Testing the non-classicality of gravity

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (provided on site)

TOPIC 9, Gravitational Waves

14:00 – 14:30
Robert Flack, University College London:
Noise test of an EM antenna for low frequency scattered gravitational wave                                   

TOPIC 10, DeWitt on the Quantum Potential and the Invariance of the Hamiltonian Operator

14:30 – 15:00
Lindon Neil, ARC ratings:
Comments on DeWitt’s 1952 paper “Point Transformations in Quantum Mechanics”

TOPIC 11, Visualizations of Cosmology

15:00 – 15:30
Hamish Todd, Traceoid:
3-spheres and the de Sitter universe

TOPIC 12, Dynamic space, Aristotelian potentiality and Hiley’s Clifford algebra methods

15:30 – 16:00
Calum Robson, London School of Economics:
Spacetime as potential via Clifford algebras

16:30 – 18:00 Concluding discussion:Evaluation criteria for physical theories   
facilitated by Avril Styrman, University of Helsinki