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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That is, after you have this explicit thing in your hands, as and as recently as nineteen seventy-eight, when even Pauli, Rosenfeld, and Heisenberg could produce no more devastating criticism of Bohm's version than to brand it as metaphysical and ideological.
And you know, all you'll see all the footnote numbers if you want to know what he's referring to.
This is in on the impossible pilot.
Why is the pilot wave picture ignored in textbooks?
Should it not be taught not as the only way?
But as an antidote to the prevailing complacency, to show that vagueness, subjectivity, and indeterminism are not forced on us by experimental facts, but by deliberate theoretical choice.
That is a very powerful statement.
That most of what you hear
about what quantum mechanics reveals to us about the world that we weren't expecting from classical physics.
is wrong.
It's not forced on you.
the the the the subjectivity, the thing about observation, the thing about measurement, the thing about f you know, the centrality of subjectivity, even the indeterminism, none of that is forced on you by any experimental
results in the sense that you have a theory, at least for the non-relativistic theory, you have a theory that gives you all those same results.
And doesn't have any of those features.
Like it or don't like it.
Maybe you don't like the theory.
Okay, but it exists.
Don't pretend it doesn't exist.
That was Bell's point.
Okay.
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