Emily Adlam: Reality Is a Completed Puzzle, Not a Flowing River

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Theories of Everything

April 11, 20251h 23m

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Show Notes

Emily Adlam challenges time's flow, presenting an 'all-at-once' universe like a completed Sudoku puzzle. The conversation delves into quantum measurement, observer roles, causality, and the arrow of time, highlighting the need for both philosophical clarity and scientific precision.

- 00:00 - Introduction
- 00:56 - Observers in Quantum Mechanics
- 02:15 - The Measurement Problem
- 06:23 - Dogmas in Quantum Foundations
- 08:24 - Causation and Its Philosophical Implications
- 09:12 - The Arrow of Time and Its Mysteries
- 10:28 - Exploring Coarse Graining and Reductionism
- 13:21 - Non-Locality: Temporal vs. Spatial
- 16:06 - The Nature of Non-Locality
- 19:34 - Temporal Non-Locality and Its Implications
- 21:51 - Retrocausality: The All-at-Once Perspective
- 26:25 - The Measurement Problem and All-at-Once Framework
- 28:24 - Observer-Centric Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
- 31:29 - Probabilities in Physics
- 32:51 - The Process Matrix and Causal Structures
- 38:33 - Foundations of Physics and Philosophy
- 1:05:16 - The Emergence of Space-Time
- 1:08:11 - Exploring Correlations in Physical Parameters
- 1:10:44 - Epistemology of the Measurement Problem
- 1:13:26 - Lessons in Patience and Persistence

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RESOURCES:

- Emily's profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily-Adlam
- Spooky Action at a Temporal Distance (paper): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7512241/pdf/entropy-20-00041.pdf
- Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Reductionism (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.20457
- Two Roads of Retrocausality (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.12934
- Taxonomy for Physics Beyond Quantum Mechanics (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.12293
- Strong Determinism (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02886
- Carlo Rovelli on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY
- Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4
- Emily interviewed about Nonlocality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR7aPlZg7dE&ab_channel=GeorgeMusser
- Tim Palmer on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlklA6jsS8A
- Tim Maudlin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1bs5o3nss
- Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01411
- Governing Without a Fundamental Direction of Time (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09226
- Matt Segal on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTm4fSXpbM
- Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWip00iXbo&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlN6E8KrxcYCWQIHg2tfkqvR&index=33
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