Skip to content

If the correct solution to the measurement problem does not involve local beables, or if those beables have no nonrelativistic analogs, then starting with nonrelativistic quantum mechanics is counterproductive. But one has to start somewhere...

— Tim Maudlin Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)

Another quote →

More quotes by Tim Maudlin

Although this book is not the place to thrash out those issues, I have thrashed them... in other places.

Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)

Starting from what we understand and seeing clearly its inadequacies can provide a path to conceptual progress.

Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)

Non-locality appears at exactly the point where the "measurement problem" which infects standard quantum theory is resolved.

Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)

Physics aspires to a sort of universality that is unique among empirical sciences and holds, in that sense, a foundational position among them.

Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)

Pictures of space-time look misleadingly like pictures of space, and the novice must unlearn some of the conventions...

Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)

All Tim Maudlin quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Tim Maudlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.