Jorge Pullin attended the University of Buenos Aires (electrical engineering) for two years before leaving for Instituto Balseiro in Argentina to finish a M.Sc.
Reviewer Jerzy Lewandowski writes "the book should allow people from outside the loopy circles to gain access in the current state of the art.
Another pair of his papers studies a simplified mathematical model of the radiation emitted when a star collapses into a black hole, and shows that it compares favorably to numerical simulations.
The need for an interpretation is because the extremely-well-verified equations of quantum mechanics leaves unaddressed various issue concerning the nature of reality, the ultimate accuracy of measurement, hidden variables, and the idea of multiple universes.
The issues revolve around the nature of the collapse of the quantum wave function as made by a measurement, with the famous example being understanding of Schroedinger's Cat.
The Montevideo interpretation adds gravity into the picture, where there must be fundamental limits on the accuracy of any clock, and this introduces a decoherence into all systems, which acts as a measurement.
"This interpretation explains the emergence of the classical world via decoherence through the interaction with the environment plus loss of coherence of the quantum theory when studied with real clocks and measuring rods...