Time, Quantum and Information

I Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and His Role in the Physics of the 20th Century.- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and The Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Society.- The Role of the Physicist in the Nuclear Age.- “The Atomic Bomb Reveals the Political Responsibility of Science”.- On the Unfathomableness of Consciousness by Consciousness.- II Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Contributions to Nuclear and Astrophysics and Their Impact on the Development of Physics.- Introduction: From the Atomic Nucleus to Cosmic Vortex Systems.- The Origins of Nuclear Physics and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Semi-Empirical Mass Formula.- Thermonuclear Processes in Stars and Stellar Neutrinos.- Comets: Fascinating Cosmic Objects.- The Spectrum of Turbulence.- From Dust Disks to Planetary Systems.- III The Unity of Nature and the Nature of Time.- Science and Its Relation to Nature in C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Natural Philosophy.- C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Philosophy of Science and the Nature of Time.- What Is Missing? — The Fundamental Role of Time in C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Conception of Physics and Some Insights from Modern Neuroscience.- Irreversibility via Semichaos.- Remarks on Fractional Time.- The Dynamics of Modelling.- IV The Structure of Quantum Theory and Its Interpretation.- An Introduction to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Program for a Reconstruction of Quantum Theory.- Interpreting Quantum Mechanics — in the Light of Quantum Logic.- On the Interpretation of Quantum Theory — from Copenhagen to the Present Day.- Epistemic and Ontic Quantum Realities.- Information and Fundamental Elements of the Structure of Quantum Theory.- Multiple Quantization in Fock Space.- V The Ur-Hypothesis and Its Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology.- The Ur-Hypothesis.- The Momentum Eigenstates and the Lorentz-Invariant State.- C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Reconstruction of Physics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.- The Operational Structure of Spacetime.- Ur Theory and Space-Time Structure.- Weizsäcker’s Ur Theory — A Cosmological Point of View.- Ur Theory and Cosmological Phase Transition.- Phase Transitions in an Expanding Universe: Paul Roman’s Models and Some Remarks on Entropy.- C. F. von Weizsäcker: Biographical Data and Selected Bibliography in Physics.- The Authors.