David Wallace

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Emily Adlam & David Wallace: The Quantum Interpretation That Divides Physicists · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Saki, let me back off.

Sorry, I've tangled my chain of thought.

Let me just put, since I paused, let me just save for Kurt.

I'm playing, like,

We're doing the Let's Talk at a Conference framework, but Emily and I have talked about this stuff a lot.

So the way we actually want to talk about it is inevitably going to have to have a fair amount of pedagogy.

If we just have a direct conversation about this, I think it's going to get... Oh, that's totally fine.

All right, fine.

So maybe distinguish between modification light...

And pure interpretation.

So there might be modificatory moves that, as you say, are less kind of thoroughgoing than dynamical collapse theories or hidden variable theories.

I'm really sceptical, but if there were, then yeah, I can see that's a window you might be able to explore.

Yeah.

And then there's kind of genuinely pure interpretation.

So if there's a pure interpretation of QM that's not Everett, then yeah, I'm happy to say that's very much on the table and we can talk about it.

I mean, from that point of view, if we think about the relational idea, I guess the question is, and I think this has come up in some of your work, there's a sort of tension where if you...

It's hard to find a happy medium that doesn't commit you either to a relatively thoroughgoing modification of formalism or basically claps back to Everett.

If you take the sort of original Revelli idea that the core content of relationism was just simply the statement that we can't state a quantum state other than in the context of some other system.

I mean, I'm not even sure that differs from ever at a level that isn't a relatively kind of high metaphysics level.

I'm not even sure.

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