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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Difference Between Relativistic Quantum Field Theory and Well-Made Physics

I'm not completely surprised because both you and I have written papers about energy conservation and its failure in quantum mechanics, which anyone could have done in the 1950s. But is this a fact that you're talking about now, would it be a difference between well-made mechanics and other formulations of quantum? Or is it just that you can't ask the question?Yeah, it's a little hard to say because, and again, I'm now just reporting what Sid Hunt tells me and he's done all the research. He says, if you go into the standard physics literature about arrival times, you'll find 20 different suggestions about how to do it. They tend to agree with each other

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