Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Theories of Everything
Tim Maudlin: Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH
3 hour 2 minutes Posted Jul 27, 2026 at 3:24 pm.
Einstein's Quantization Hypothesis
Photoelectric Effect Implications
Wave-Particle Duality Myths
De Broglie's Matter Waves
Copenhagen's Completeness Doctrine
Solvay 1927: Two Conceptions
Pinhole Diffraction Problem
Collapse and Relativity Violations
Epistemic vs. Ontic Collapse
Ontological vs. Dynamical Locality
Configuration Space Objections
EPR's Criterion of Reality
Analyzing the Reality Criterion
Causal Isolation and Locality
Entangled Momentum Eigenstates
Logical Core of EPR
Position-Momentum Simultaneous Reality
Inferring Determinism from Locality
Conservation Laws and Information
Counterfactual Definiteness Debunked
Bohr's Incoherent Response
Schrödinger's Entanglement Confession
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This is a careful lecture that can be followed with zero background knowledge. Einstein thought he'd caught quantum mechanics in an act of spookiness — this podcast asks whether he was even worried about the right thing. Tim Maudlin, professor of philosophy at NYU and a leading philosopher of physics, delivers a rare full lecture tracing Einstein, EPR, and the road to Bell's theorem. The central claim: Einstein's real objection was never determinism — "God does not play dice" is a red herring — but non-locality, which he inferred rather than assumed. Maudlin traces the argument from Einstein's overlooked 1927 Solvay objection through the EPR paper's criterion of reality, showing why Bohr's famous reply never actually answered it.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
- Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/1444331272?tag=toe08-20
- On a Heuristic Point of View About the Creation and Conversion of Light [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/lectures/Rotman_Summer_School_2013/Einstein_1905_docs/Einstein_Light_Quantum_WikiSource.pdf
- The Ghost in the Atom [Paper]: https://vdoc.pub/download/the-ghost-in-the-atom-a-discussion-of-the-mysteries-of-quantum-physics-1guq071e2ukg
- Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics [Paper]: https://mwolf.pracownicy.uksw.edu.pl/MK/Schrodinger_Collected_Papers_on_Wave_Mechanics.pdf
- Quantum Theory at the Crossroads [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0521814219?tag=toe08-20
- Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.47.777
- Bohr's EPR Critique [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.48.696
- The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics [Paper]: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/partiii/pdf/SchroedingerPresentSituation1935(1980trans).pdf
- Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality [Paper]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/142461/files/198009299.pdf
- On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/ppf/pdf/10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.195
- Quantum Theory and Measurement [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0691613168?tag=toe08-20
- Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss
- Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo
- Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8
- Jenann Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0
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