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Colloquium
Physics and Narrative
David Albert, Columbia University Dept. of Philosophy
Location: AQ3149
Friday, 17 October 2025 02:30PM PDT
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Synopsis
I will show, using a very simple thought-experiment, that the histories of relativistic quantum-mechanical systems cannot be presented in the form of an assignment of states to any one-parameter sequence of "times" - and I will consider what this implies about the structure of the spatio-temporal arena in which the histories of such systems unfold.