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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 Importance of Quantum Theory in Modern Physics

The world behaves pretty well the way classical theory predicts at a certain scale. But that's because something emerging out of a very non classical physics. And there's no reason to think that the right way into that physics is to start with the approximation and then twiddle with it. Right? You need the fundamental physics and then hopefully you can understand why the quant, why the classical approximations work as well as they do.

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