Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH

This is Part Two of the previous lecture with Tim Maudlin (which went obscenely viral). It is the one with Bell’s theorem in it.

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics.

Part One stopped just short of the theorem on purpose, since Tim’s position is that you cannot understand Bell until you understand EPR. This is Act Three. Part Three is still to come.

We cover:

• The philosopher who found the hole in von Neumann’s impossibility proof, decades before Bell did

• Much discussion about Many Worlds, and whether it gets to keep locality

• Bell on reading David Bohm’s 1952 papers: In 1952, I saw the impossible done.

• Why Bell wanted the pilot wave taught in textbooks: to show that vagueness, subjectivity, and indeterminism are not forced on us by experimental facts, but by deliberate theoretical choice.

• Three presuppositions go into the proof, and Tim’s insistence that there is no fourth

• Bell takes the EPR…