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From rapper to filmmaker to physicist, explore the diverse 'operating system' of a creator. Discover the deep questions and artistic drive behind the quest for reality. #CreatorJourney #SelfKnowledge #DeepQuestions #Philosophy #ArtAndScience Full Podcast with Curt Jaimungal: youtu.be/K_jCtpQgqB0
From rapper to filmmaker to physicist, explore the diverse 'operating system' of a creator. Discover the deep questions and artistic drive behind the quest for reality. #CreatorJourney #SelfKnowledge #DeepQuestions #Philosophy #ArtAndScience Full Podcast with Curt Jaimungal: youtu.be/K_jCtpQgqB0






![Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH
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This is a careful lecture that can be followed with zero background knowledge. Einstein thought hed caught quantum mechanics in an act of spookiness — this podcast asks whether he was even worried about the right thing. Tim Maudlin, professor of philosophy at NYU and a leading philosopher of physics, delivers a rare full lecture tracing Einstein, EPR, and the road to Bells theorem. The central claim: Einsteins real objection was never determinism — God does not play dice is a red herring — but non-locality, which he inferred rather than assumed. Maudlin traces the argument from Einsteins overlooked 1927 Solvay objection through the EPR papers criterion of reality, showing why Bohrs famous reply never actually answered it.
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TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00:00 - Einsteins Quantization Hypothesis
- 00:07:20 - Photoelectric Effect Implications
- 00:12:30 - Wave-Particle Duality Myths
- 00:20:40 - De Broglies Matter Waves
- 00:26:40 - Copenhagens Completeness Doctrine
- 00:34:10 - Solvay 1927: Two Conceptions
- 00:41:20 - Pinhole Diffraction Problem
- 00:48:00 - Collapse and Relativity Violations
- 00:56:00 - Epistemic vs. Ontic Collapse
- 01:05:00 - Ontological vs. Dynamical Locality
- 01:14:00 - Configuration Space Objections
- 01:25:00 - EPRs Criterion of Reality
- 01:32:40 - Analyzing the Reality Criterion
- 01:40:50 - Causal Isolation and Locality
- 01:48:45 - Entangled Momentum Eigenstates
- 01:56:45 - Logical Core of EPR
- 02:04:40 - Position-Momentum Simultaneous Reality
- 02:14:00 - Inferring Determinism from Locality
- 02:26:30 - Conservation Laws and Information
- 02:37:40 - Counterfactual Definiteness Debunked
- 02:44:00 - Bohrs Incoherent Response
- 02:52:00 - Schrödingers Entanglement Confession
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/1444331272?tag=toe08-20
- On a Heuristic Point of View About the Creation and Conversion of Light [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/lectures/Rotman_Summer_School_2013/Einstein_1905_docs/Einstein_Light_Quantum_WikiSource.pdf
- The Ghost in the Atom [Paper]: https://vdoc.pub/download/the-ghost-in-the-atom-a-discussion-of-the-mysteries-of-quantum-physics-1guq071e2ukg
- Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics [Paper]: https://mwolf.pracownicy.uksw.edu.pl/MK/Schrodinger_Collected_Papers_on_Wave_Mechanics.pdf
- Quantum Theory at the Crossroads [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0521814219?tag=toe08-20
- Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.47.777
- Bohrs EPR Critique [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.48.696
- The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics [Paper]: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/partiii/pdf/SchroedingerPresentSituation1935(1980trans).pdf
- Bertlmanns Socks and the Nature of Reality [Paper]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/142461/files/198009299.pdf
- On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/ppf/pdf/10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.195
- Quantum Theory and Measurement [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0691613168?tag=toe08-20
- Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss
- Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo
- Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8
- Jenann Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0
- John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M
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