Note: I will be giving the Peggy and John Day University Honors Endowed Lecture this Thursday Oct 9 5:30PM at Niagara University. It’s open to the public! It will be on why I remain unconvinced of the simulation hypothesis, physicalism, and idealism. This won’t be a typical academic lecture. Now onto today’s podcast…
I could have titled this “How Quantum Mechanics Got Reality Completely Wrong” because that’s exactly what Yakir Aharonov thinks. It’s interesting because other Nobel laureates like Roger Penrose and Gerard ‘t Hooft have similarly been adamant that quantum theory is not just “incomplete” but it’s “wrong.”
They mince no words.
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These are some of the most legendary living physicists. Yakir is someone who I think will win the Nobel Prize as well w…
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