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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I I mean I I should have looked up the diesel story, went to Einstein in Princeton, in his home in Princeton.
And he was talking about quantum theory and I guess talking about a a hidden variables theory, because he had been playing with these theories all along.
And whoever he was talking to said, but what about von Neumann?
Didn't van Neumann prove you can't do this?
And the report is Einstein went to his shelf, pulled von Neumann's book off the shelf, opened it to a page, pointed to a uh a specific line, and said, There's no reason to believe this.
Which was an assumption that von Neumann had made, the same assumption that Greta von Hermann pointed out.
So we know Einstein knew.
That that von Neumann had not proven such a thing.
What I mean, I could try to go into the details, but I do think it would take us too far afield.
Yeah, that's fine.
I mean, I will say one other little thing.
There's a there's an interview that somebody did with Bell and Bell says to the interviewer, he says, You can write this down.
Та вон Неман'з ассомціоналінг, і вас фуліш.
It was foolish.
Von Neumann made an assumption about
If certain operators, which are what you use in quantum theory to make predictions, and the operators form a vector space, so you can add them and so on, they have algebraic, they can have algebraic relations between them.
That if the operators have certain relations, then the outcomes, the observed outcomes have to obey those same relations.
And that's just not true.
And there's no reason to assume it ha it has to work that way.
And in the pilot wave theory, it doesn't work that way.
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