Tim Maudlin
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4,767 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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And Einstein just thought: look, you just don't want a theory where what happens in one region of space can suddenly and instantaneously affect the physical conditions in distant.
Especially arbitrarily distant regions of space.
Now one could worry in addition if you had it.
Is that change mediated by something going fast going from the one to the other?
If something I do here has an effect over there, is there some
physical item that goes from one to the other, something we would call a tachyon, if this has to be faster than light, that's yet another issue, right?
You know, you might you might be even more upset if this action at a distance wasn't mediated.
But that's not the issue here.
It's just is there such a thing?
Einstein's worry was not about indeterminism.
It wasn't about this issue of God playing dice.
It's also not about signaling.
He never expresses any concerns that the Copenhagen understanding of quantum theory would allow superluminal signaling.
If he thought that, he would presumably have said, okay, show us, right?
If he said, you know, according to you, not only is there this spooky
Action at a distance, but I can use it to send signals.
He presumably would have said, now go into the lab and show I can do this.
But he he never asked them to do that.
He never thought you could do that.
In fact, he thought it was manifest in the examples he was talking about that you can't do it.
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