Tim Maudlin

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

So that was more or less where we got to by the end of last time.

And so all of this is things I've said before, including slides that were before, but just so they're fresh in mind.

So the the EPR paper is asks the question whether quantum mechanical description of reality, uh meaning the wave function, is complete.

And so these are now just direct quotes from the paper.

It's a very short paper and a very clear paper.

And they tell you what they're after, right?

So I'm just gonna read it again.

In attempting to judge the success of a physical theory, we may ask ourselves two questions.

First, is the theory correct?

And second, is the description given by the theory complete?

It's only in the case in which positive answers may be given to both of those questions that the concepts of the theory may be said to be satisfactory.

The correctness of the theory is judged by the degree of agreement between the conclusions of the theory and human experience.

So, again, this is what we would call empirical adequacy.

Is this theory making good predictions as far as we can tell?

This experience, which alone enables us to make inferences about reality, in physics takes the form of experiment and measurement.

It is the second question, the completeness question that we wish to consider here.

Here as applied to quantum mechanics.

So they're they're nowhere questioning the accuracy of the quantum mechanical predictions.

That wasn't the issue.

But then what do you mean by a complete theory?

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