Tim Maudlin

speaker

4,767 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Aug

Tim Maudlin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

So in a continuum, it turns out that defining what is a continuous motion and what's a continuous curve, that's actually very tricky.

And and and the standard definition is actually kind of weird and has strange examples of, okay, I mean, we could spend forever on that.

What counts as a continuous function?

In a continuum, it turns out those are really complicated.

In a discrete structure,

I would say what you mean by a continuous motion is always a motion to the to a nearest neighbor.

Bump, bump, bump.

What would be discontinuous to the jump from here to here without going through any of the intermediate intermediate ones.

So you have particles, they always have a configuration.

Configuration evolves in time.

It does so by the guidance equation.

Uh the wave function, again, if we go back to Einstein's question, does the wave function represent something about the individual system?

Even a system with many particles?

Or is it a statistical description of an ensemble of many systems?

The answer is no.

The wave function in the pilot wave theory is a feature, a physical feature of the individual system.

And it guides the individual particles in that system.

And it determines how the configuration of those particles changes with time.

It it is it itself is not a statistical description.

It is a

Showing 781–800 of 4,767 · page 40 of 239