Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH

I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE This is a careful lecture that can be followed with zero background knowledge. Einstein thought he'd 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 Bell's theorem. The central claim: Einstein's 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 Einstein's overlooked 1927 Solvay objection through the EPR paper's criterion of reality, showing why Bohr's famous reply never actually answered it. FOLLOW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9... Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/su... Twitter:   / toewithcurt   Discord Invite:   / discord   Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Einstein's Quantization Hypothesis 00:07:20 - Photoelectric Effect Implications 00:12:30 - Wave-Particle Duality Myths 00:20:40 - De Broglie's Matter Waves 00:26:40 - Copenhagen's 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 - EPR's 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 - Bohr's Incoherent Response 02:52:00 - Schrödinger's Entanglement Confession LINKS MENTIONED: Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/1444331272?tag=... On a Heuristic Point of View About the Creation and Conversion of Light [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/lect... The Ghost in the Atom [Paper]: https://vdoc.pub/download/the-ghost-i... Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics [Paper]: https://mwolf.pracownicy.uksw.edu.pl/... Quantum Theory at the Crossroads [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0521814219?tag=... Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.11... Bohr's EPR Critique [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.11... The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics [Paper]: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/t... Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality [Paper]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/142461/fil... On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/ppf/pdf/10.1... Quantum Theory and Measurement [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0691613168?tag=... Tim Maudlin [TOE]:    • Why Bell's Theorem Changes Everything | Ti...   Sean Carroll [TOE]:    • The "Crisis" in (Fundamental) Physics Expl...   Robert Sapolsky [TOE]:    • Free Will, Morality, Self Awareness | Robe...   Jenann Ismael [TOE]:    • The Physics of Free Will: A Radical New Th...   John Norton [TOE]:    • The 300-Year-Old Physics Mistake No One No...   Guests do not pay to appear. #science