Tim Maudlin traces Einstein, EPR, and Bell’s theorem in a long physics lecture
TOEwithCurt · x · 2026-07-27
This post shares a careful lecture/podcast with Tim Maudlin, a philosophy of physics professor at NYU, covering Einstein, EPR, and Bell’s theorem.
The note says it can be followed with no background knowledge and frames the talk around whether Einstein was worried about the right kind of “spookiness” in quantum mechanics. The lecture traces the historical path from Einstein’s objections to EPR and then to Bell’s theorem, making it a rare long-form explanation of the foundations of quantum theory.
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