Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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predicted with certainty, completely accurately, then there is some element of physical reality in that system that corresponds to that.
It seems to us that this criterion, while far from exhausting all possible ways of recognizing a physical reality, at least provides us with one such way whenever the conditions set down in it occur.
And notice they're very stringent conditions.
You have to be able to predict with certainty the outcome of your measurement without in any way disturbing the system.
Regarded not as a necessary, but merely as a sufficient condition of reality, this criterion is in agreement with the classical as well as the quantum mechanical ideas of reality.
Now
That criterion
You have to pay attention to because the it part of the criterion is that you're able to make this prediction without in any way disturbing the system.
that you're predicting the outcome of.
And his main complaint, Einstein's main complaint about the Copenhagen presentation or understanding of quantum theory from the beginning, and we went back last time to 1927 in the Solvay Conference, was that it seemed committed to non-locality.
It seemed committed to the idea that uh something happening at one place could immediately disturb and change physically the physical.
physical situation far away instantaneously.
And that he called spooky action at a distance.
Why did Einstein object to spooky action at a distance?
Well, f first of all, in itself, it struck him as a strange thing.
It struck Newton as a strange thing, too.
Um and secondarily, because it's supposed to be an instantaneous
Action.
It would be a threat to relativity because in relativity, there just nothing counts as instantaneous.
There's no way to define an instantaneous action because there's no absolute simultaneity.
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