Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
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But like I've pointed all these examples, thinking carefully about our best physical theories has generated a lot of really important ideas.
I would argue.
That the
incredible f ferment that we saw at the end of the 19th century into the beginning of the 20th century that saw the development of statistical mechanics, that saw the development of relativity, special and general relativity, and quantum mechanics, that it's no accident this happened at a time when philosophers and physicists were trained in each other's areas, were closely connected, that all the top physicists talked about philosophy, and philosophers who were closely
To physicists, right, talked about physics.
This softened the soil and generated a tremendous amount of raw creative.
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that has that is then, you know, extended all the way into the twentieth century.
I would argue that maybe we need another time like that, that this is a ripe moment for there to be more cross pollination between these fields to generate the ideas that'll take us further into the twenty first century.
Great.
Would you add anything to that list?
When you read Emily's papers, you don't notice any lack of mathematical sophistication.
Um yeah.
y you're an exemplar of the kind of of person working in philosophy, um h who who whom physicists should spend more time getting to know.
Um I think
It's not that
Physicists don't engage in philosophical
reasoning sometimes.
I do sometimes think that in any field
We can begin to think that we know well enough how to do everything, and we don't need the help of anybody else.
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