Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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Why didn't Einstein himself come up with Bell's theorem in a way?
You know, you
You get to Bell's theorem by reflecting on EPR.
Certainly Einstein reflected on EPR.
W why didn't he make make the moves Bell made?
And the answer is that because Bell had been thinking about Bohm's way of Bohm's example.
And we have no reason particularly to believe that Einstein certainly before even reading Bohm in 1950 thought about the example reformulated in this way.
Okay.
So uh what did Bohm do?
So he wrote this textbook.
It gets published in 1951.
Bohm is an assistant professor at Princeton.
Bohm's own education was more or less Copenhagenish.
Uh, and he was not out to undermine the Copenhagen approach in this textbook.
It was just the opposite.
He was out to try to express it in a very clear way so people would understand what quantum theory was, according to Copenhagen.
And he worked hard at the pedagogy and he worked hard.
at at at working out a lot of detailed examples, uh applications of the theory, and so on.
Of course, because he also was interested in the basic concepts, he was interested in the EPR argument and he wanted to present the EPR argument.
What he did was he changed it from the specific example that EPR used, which had to do with momentum measurements and position measurements made on these distant particles, to spin measurements.
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