Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Tim Maudlin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, the locality is physic physical locality for him was locality in physical space.
Now, configuration space is not physical space.
It has way too many dimensions, and it doesn't have the geometry of physical space, and it's not this, as it were, the space in which we have laboratories with magnets that point in directions, and you know, we orient the magnets in physical space, and the dots are up and down in physical space, and so on.
Yeah.
It's true that if you
I if you write down the dynamics of the pilot wave theory.
You can write it down formally all of it in a way in configuration space.
Um
both the wave function and then what happens is because the configuration space has so many dimensions.
uh the configuration of say ten to the twenty third particles, a very complicated configuration in physical space.
Gets represented by a single point in this very high dimensional space.
And as the configuration changes and it's changing in all sorts of ways, that gets represented by the motion of this single particle in this high-dimensional space.
But that high dimensional space is not considered to be physical space.
That's just a formal mathematical trick, right?
That's just a formal representation.
of a collection of particles in physical space.
Uh-huh.
If you try to tell me, no, no, I just don't believe there are many particles in a low dimensional physical space.
I believe that all there really is is a single particle in a extremely high dimensional space.
Then you get a theory that that Shelly Goldstein, I mean, David Albert kind of presents this as if this were the pilot wave theory, which it isn't.
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