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The Problem With Quantum Theory | Full Interview | Tim Maudlin



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From Schrödinger’s cat to General Relativity, Professor of Philosopher at NYU, Tim Maudlin, explains the problem with quantum theory today.

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Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University with interests primarily focused in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and logic. His books include Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity, Truth and Paradox and The Metaphysics Within Physics.

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28 thoughts on “The Problem With Quantum Theory | Full Interview | Tim Maudlin
  1. I came here for the physics, saw a naked neanderthal in the background, so I had to keep rewinding because I would get distracted watching him! 😂😂

  2. Quantum mechanics is a corruption of science. A CGI computer statistical machine reliant field that relies on skewed programming and throwing away petabytes of data to get the really you want. None of it inspires any confidence whatsoever.

    There MUST be an audit of science. Studying the foundations is a potential springboard to get that done.

  3. Me and this is a small taster
    For them to say our reality is the same has computer code they must be changing it, they certainly not looking down a powerful microscope and seeing ones and zeros, so that means we are in a matrix which would mean that there is a hard drive, now in the experiment in showing water holds memory I believe I know where the hard drive is to our reality, in the experiment a listening device was used to record the electromagnetic field coming from the water to later reconstruct the DNA that was once in the water from the recording, this told me magnetic fields holds memory so that made me think is our hard drive in earth’s magnetic field? I got my answer seeing what looks like magnetic frequencies being created by SpaceX and CERN with powerful magnets being turned on and off in sequence, well that last bit is just me speculating but it’s the only way I can think of that tells me they would know our reality is the same has computer code in ones and zeros. If you want to know more check my videos out

  4. This video clip is 19:50 long but when you can see it's true nature which is a video file where do you put that time in? time is illusion for what we do or can not fully understand and what is not?

  5. Prior to his work with Quantum Theory, Tim worked on the docks.  Union's been on strike; found himself down on his luck….it was tough, so tough.

  6. I negotiate my world with an understanding of the physical things around me, an understanding of people and a sense that there is more, perhaps God, a moral nature to man.
    Quantum Mechanics seems irrational to me because the proponents of this world view seem to be telling me that I do not understand my world yet they can not explain quantum mechanics without invoking stories which are just that, stories about how things might be. The dual slit experiment, what a load of crap. The dual slit experiment makes perfect sense if you have a rational definition of a particle and a wave, which they refuse to use. Also , just because the math about probability seems to correlate to observations, does not mean that the two are the same, or that they correlate because they are similar, it just means it is a useful tool.
    If Quantum Mechanics was logical, it could be understood using a logical analogy. The math of QM is logical, the explanations, the analogies used are not.
    I think that many of the people who talk about this subject do not know what they are talking about, perhaps I am one of them. LOL

  7. More Ivory Tower bullshit. Time is a concept. How do we bend a concept??? We Americans love our Liberty, how do we bend freedom??? Come back down to earth, come back to reality, your mathematical extrapolation is not reality.

  8. The calculative mathematical approach to physics can only get science so far. Imagination and intuition are needed to push theory beyond where math has stopped being able to predict. We know that some of our math breaks down and fails to be able to predict what is happening at the quantum level and beyond. Intuitive philosophers are needed at this frontier to steer the mathematicians in the right direction with math theory.
    Then the cycle renews and continues. New math proves a theory correct then hits a wall and Philosophers step in to increase our understanding beyond the mathematical boundary. And sometimes the inverse is true. Math leads the way for philosophers.

  9. I really enjoyed this professor's thoughtfulness and his comments about how physicists don't ask certain hard questions about quantum mechanics. But while discussing Einstein, he seemed to say that time, in reality, goes from past to present to future. But that's not how time is represented in Einstein's Block Universe. So I didn't understand the foundation for embracing a primitive, experiential concept of the flow of time.

  10. Maudlin makes a good point about Einstein. Einstein's private pronouncements on a host of subjects often differed radically from his formal, published work. Even on as consequential a subject as the existence of G-d, Einstein's statements on the subject, throughout his life, vary wildly. His statements on spiritual matters were terribly inconsistent throughout his life. At times he believed, and at times he didn't.

  11. There is something really fishy about the tone of video, I don't think that the physicist are conservative or are reluctant to consider new ideas. I wonder what is really behind all this?

  12. We perceive 4 dimensions, 3 in space 1 in time, but what if we were blind to many others that are necessary for the standard model to work? What about more time coordinates?

  13. 16:00 — "You have a very effective mathematical recipe, for grinding out predictions. And those predictions are really accurate; so there's something in that recipe that reflects the real world. But exactly what reflects the real world, and how?"

    Here is a theory, and I can't really take credit for it, it seems to be a new current of thought in physicists, notably Sean Carrol. Carrol I have seen playing with the idea, but I don't know whether he has taken it to its conclusion. In any case: what if it is the mathematics itself that reflects the real world? Here is a video that explores something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFEBOGLjuq4&t=89s

    This would obviously imply Mathematical Platonism. The Wave Equation as such must have pre-existed humanity. What if the Wave Equation IS that "something in the recipe that reflects the real world?"

  14. Didn't Professor Michiu Kaku say once (it is on a YouTube video for all to see) that we need a new type of Mathematics for the Physics of today , cuz what there is is quite inadecuate? This sentiment is clearly demonstrated in the book called : "Why Math is leading Physicists away". And just aone true example of that title statement is the fact that recently Hawking's theory based on a model that many called " beautiful Math" and that claimed very small black holes created dark matter, was proven wrong by observational research of deep state done by other astrophysicists.

  15. This guy is super lame. What about emergent time like in spin-quantum networks of Carlo Rovelli's loop quantum gravity. What about Noether's theorem, our deepest insight in physics, which says dimensions, including time, are directly equivalent to symmetries such as translational and rotational conservation laws. Get a grip dude. Read up.

  16. We need a physical theory in quantum mechanics that predicts how reality works because mathematics won't tell you what caused that prediction though it predicts something very accurate. Mathematics shows you the effect but not the cause. That's why we need a physical theory.

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