David Albert: Einstein Was Right About Quantum Mechanics! [Ep. 433]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Could physics serve as our best guide to metaphysics? What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? And what’s the deal with the age-old feud between philosophers and physicists? Here to shed light on all these questions and more is none other than David Z. Albert, professor of philosophy and director of the MA program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University in New York. David is a prominent American philosopher and physicist widely recognized for his contributions to the philosophy of quantum mechanics and the foundations of physics. He has published four popular books and numerous articles on quantum mechanics. In our stimulating conversation, we talked about his controversial PhD proposal, the truth about quantum mechanics, Einstein's affection for Ernst Mach, and who would win in a fight: a physicist or a philosopher? Tune in! Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:59 Judging a book by its cover 00:10:25 Department's opposition to David's PhD 00:19:09 Physics and philosophy 00:28:41 The experimental minimum 00:36:11 The past hypothesis 00:47:15 Other forms of logic in other universes 00:53:47 Popper’s falsification criteria 01:03:59 Physics and narrative 01:06:11 Audience questions 01:22:26 Existential questions 01:26:43 Outro — Additional resources: 📝 Get one month of Snipd Premium for free with this link: https://get.snipd.com/Cx7S/brianSnipd Snipd lets you take Smart Notes 🧠 with AI 💡 — it’s my favorite podcast player 😀 ! ➡️ Learn more about David Z. Albert: 💻 Closer to Truth: https://closertotruth.com/contributor/david-albert/ 📚 The Wave Function by David Z. Albert: https://a.co/d/hNiphE8 ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Isic Serb as our best going to metaphysms? What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics?
0:07.0	And what's a deal between age-old beef between philosophers and physicists.
0:13.0	Here today to answer all these questions and more,
0:15.0	is none other than my friend David Albert himself,
0:19.0	a renowned philosopher and physicist,
0:21.0	widely recognized for his contributions to the philosophy of quantum mechanics and the thousand. and proposal and the truth about quantum mechanics, Einstein's affection for Ernest Mock, and who
0:35.2	would win in a fight between a physicist and a philosopher.
0:39.0	Let's go. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. David welcome to wet. Imagine.
0:53.4	David, welcome to wet, cold, frigid San Diego.
0:57.5	Glad to be here.
0:59.6	We've been talking, we started talking, we met in person a couple months ago courtesy of Robinson
1:04.3	Earhart another youtuber philosopher of science up at Stanford who record an
1:10.5	episode with me five six months ago Robinson is still waiting for that to come out
1:15.2	But he's had you on four or five times and every time is just delightful and we met in a very famous location the renowned for its pastry and its tourism the
1:24.8	Hungarian pastry shop in the upper west side of New York in November when I was
1:28.8	there visiting your colleague Brian Green and you graciously agreed to not only come and do the podcast but come to
1:34.1	San Diego and give a colloquium so today you're giving colloquium we'll get into
1:37.5	that in just a bit the first thing I always love to do on this podcast as I
1:42.3	mentioned is do what you're never supposed to do which is to judge a
1:45.5	book by its cover now we don't have your book I have it on Kindle so can't really show it up to the
1:51.5	camera but if you can remember it and describe your
1:54.4	book came out I think in 2023 September right so just before we met describe
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