{"id":235702,"date":"2026-04-22T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/tim-maudlin-bells-theorem-and-beyond-nobody-understands-quantum-mechanics-the-cartesian-cafe"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:04:28","slug":"tim-maudlin-bells-theorem-and-beyond-nobody-understands-quantum-mechanics-the-cartesian-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/tim-maudlin-bells-theorem-and-beyond-nobody-understands-quantum-mechanics-the-cartesian-cafe","title":{"rendered":"Tim Maudlin | Bell\u2019s Theorem and Beyond: Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics | The Cartesian Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRT5zXAwvBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science specializing in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and logic. He is a professor at New York University, a member of the Foundational Questions Institute, and the founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics.<\/p>\n<p>#quantum #physics #philosophy #determinism.<\/p>\n<p>Patreon (bonus materials + video chat):<br \/> \/ timothynguyen.<\/p>\n<p>In this very in-depth discussion, Tim and I probe the foundations of science through the avenues of locality and determinism as arising from the Einstein-Poldosky-Rosen (EPR) paradox and Bell\u2019s Theorem. These issues are so intricate that even the Nobel Prize committee incorrectly described the significance of Bell\u2019s work in their press release for the 2022 prize in physics. Viewers motivated enough to think deeply about these ideas will be rewarded with a conceptually proper understanding of the nonlocal nature of physics and its manifestation in quantum theory.<\/p>\n<p>I. Introduction.<br \/> 00:25 : Biography.<br \/> 05:26 : Interdisciplinary work.<br \/> 11:45 : Physicists working on the wrong things.<br \/> 16:47 : Bell\u2019s Theorem soft overview.<br \/> 24:14: Common misunderstanding of \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science specializing in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and logic. He is a professor at New York University, a member of the Foundational Questions Institute, and the founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. #quantum #physics #philosophy #determinism. Patreon (bonus materials + video [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}