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Chaos, Covid, & Climate Change with Professor Tim Palmer (#267)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Is There a Way Around the Bell Theorem?

Bell's theorem says that if an experimenter did a different measurement to the one he or she actually did, then they would have got some definite result. This is sometimes called counterfactual definiteness. I try to argue from the point of view of chaos theory, it's not a given that a counterfactual world is consistent with the laws of physics. It brings you back to what I think both Einstein and Schrodinger would have been much more happy with. The laws of physics at their deepest, I think, are certain and definite, and that uncertainty ultimately is our uncertainty.

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