Emilio Santos Corchero
Emilio Santos Corchero, born 7 October 1935, is a theoretical physicist, professor at the Universities of Costa Rica, Valladolid and Cantabria . In the year 1998 he received the :es:Premios de la Real Sociedad Española de Física#Medalla de la RSEF 2|Medal of the Spanish Society of Physics.
His scientific work has been mainly devoted to develop a stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics that maintains strict causality. In that interpretation the dispersion of results in the measurements is due to lack of control of all relevant factors rather than to a lack of causality. For a summary see Foundations of Science, 20, 357-386. An application has been the study of "parametric down conversion" experiments using the Wigner representation of quantum optics; see European Physical Journal D 13, 109-119 and references therein. A related subject of interest has been the meaning of the Bell inequalities and the requirements for their empirical tests to be reliable. See Physics Letters 98A, 5-9 , Physics Letters 115A, 363-365, Physical Review A 46, 3646-3656, International Journal of Theoretical Physics 42, 2545-2555. The stochastic interpretation rests upon the assumption that the quantum vacuum consists of real fields. Their fluctuations might explain the "dark energy" recently discovered in cosmology; see Astrophysics and Space Science, 332, 423-435. Another subject of interest has been the study of relativistic stars in order to see whether some modifications of general relativity might prevent the collapse to singularities ; see Astrophysics and Space Science 341, 411-416.
