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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 Copenhagen Approach to Quantum Theory

David Baume is now a young physicist, very people, very well regarded at Princeton. He writes a book explaining quantum theory from the kind of Copenhagen-Borian point of view. And he's in Princeton, Einstein's over at the Institute for Advanced Study. As this is going on, he gets a message from Einstein: I read your book. Would you like to come talk about it? The story is that Baume goes, meets Einstein, comes back and reports when he comes back, "I'm back to square one"

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