Tim Maudlin
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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.
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Okay, that's fair, fair play.
Uh then we want to ask you things like, but why does it seem to only have three?
And then you say, Oh, they're compactified and it's a cla by yao manifold and blah, blah, blah.
That's fair play.
You need to work it all out.
It's not fair play to say, well, really, there's essentially an infinite number of dimensions and there's only a single particle.
And when I say, but then, you know, why does it look like there's a uh a rectangular table in front of me?
Well, because think of that particle as if it represented a configuration which doesn't really exist, but would be the configuration of a of a you know of a of a of a table.
That that's just cheap.
Right.
That's just cheating.
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To make sense of a theory.
Where the physical space is this high dimensional space and there's only a single particle in it.
Yes.
The or or yeah, you're you're yeah the cure is much worse, right?
Much, much worse than what you're trying to cure.
Einstein wouldn't have bought that either.
I I no, 'cause I and Einstein says, you know, he says explicitly, even in the quotes I gave in the in the EPR paper, when he says the correctness of the theory depends on how the predictions of the theory connect to our experience.
And he wants that connection to be
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