Tim Maudlin
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2 recordings
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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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Um Shelley
Shelley Goldstein gave it the name the marvelous point theory.
because the ontology of this theory is that there's only one particle, the marvelous point, and all it does is wander around in this very high-dimensional space.
And somehow all the stuff you think of as going on in physical space
Із самхау
produced by the motion of this particle.
the single particle in this high dimensional space without there really being configurations, because you only have one particle.
If you only have one particle, it doesn't have an interesting configuration.
It's very, you know, it's really
It's
Thinking of it in that way does allow you to say the physics would be local in this high dimensional space.
But then how any of this stuff
connects up with dots going up or down in labs.
with magnets being oriented this way or that way in a lab.
The magnet's made of lots of particles, right?
I mean, it's made of lots of particles.
It becomes very obscure how you connect that theory to experience.
And if you can't connect your theory to experience, it can't be an i an empirical theory.
Right.
I mean Shelley would say things like, Well, you've described a world, but how could that be our world?
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