Emily Adlam
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 20 Jul
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The f the th physicists are doing very philosophical things.
Philosophers of physics are doing calculations are doing very technical things.
Um
And I you know, I don't don't think we need to see these communities as being, you know, two two communities that are opposed to each other, but we are both engaged in similar things using slightly different tools and methodologies and we we can all benefit from
Speaking to each other more and from having more sort of cross pollination between those things.
Yeah.
Great fun.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
The dogma I worry about is that we should think about physics in terms of time evolution.
This picture where you start at the beginning and evolve forwards in time.
That's a very intuitive way of thinking about physics, but it is very clearly not a good fit for what we are seeing.
There's really good evidence coming from lots of different parts of physics that we shouldn't be thinking about time in those terms.
Uh well this is not a very original answer, but I think the measurement problem uh of quantum mechanics for me still really stands out as an important unsolved problem.
Um
And not just because it's sort of intellectually interesting, but because I it seems to me that it's closely linked to a variety of concrete problems that we're working on in modern physics.
So in particular, I think in the context of work on quantum gravity, a lot of the issues we're really sort of struggling with are ultimately to do with the nature of observers, the nature of observation.
Uh so for example, solving the problem of time is all about trying to understand uh
how to put the observers into their theories in the way that reproduces the kinds of observations we expect to see.
And so that makes me think that uh perhaps there's an issue here where we never really came to grips with how to think about observers in the context of ordinary quantum mechanics.
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