Steve Wood / BJ Hiley Theoretical Physics Research Unit Seminar, Birkbeck College London 2002
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Recorded at Theoretical Physics Research Unit Seminar, Birkbeck College London (2002), featuring Steve Wood, BJ Hiley. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.

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0:00 Well, I mean, as I say, I honestly, there's not a lot going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's lots of dentists and things like this. I mean, how do you find out about this? No, but, I'm sorry, I'm interested in that. I'm obviously interested in that. I was talking to you about it last week. No, but Jeremy Blackfield does this newsletter that he puts out on the web, which is just called Philosophy in Physics. Philosophy in Physics. Philosophy, Maths and Physics fixtures list of the four seminars in London, and usually Bristol and Leeds as well, if anyone's got anything in fact. Can you give me an email and just let me know? Yeah, and I should, I'm sorry, I should... Can that be, can that be a... Well, I'm on the, I'm on the... He does it very crunchily. I'm on there with you. I'm on there with you. Cambridge, you've got a history of philosophy of science there. Yeah, I'm on there with you. I'm on there with you as well. Pretty good. Yeah, I'm on there with you as well. I'll see you on the right down hill for one of these. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There's one more seminar I'd like to invite you to attend, which is the science of the last round, and the half-an-hour one. Well, yes, that's true. I mean, all the people who were at Cambridge who were really good. And the time that we talked about was the last quarter of the year. And there wasn't anybody there, so they kept up the R.A.E. like they did. Well, anyway, that was an exciting topic. Well, I think that's it.

2:30 Yeah, you've got a very pleasant time. He gave a talk today about the physics of the first philosophy, law, symmetry, law, and reality. I thought he was trying to say something interesting, i.e. all this stuff that we've been discussing for a long time. Well, he also came up with a very interesting thing about the geometric structure in the quantum formula. But then, he walked it off, and it's very interesting. ...continuous dialogue now about which of those two are more popular than the other, which, you know, is an interesting issue in itself, because it doesn't really connect up very much with what we were saying before. And then, at the end of the day, if it wasn't the end of the day, it was about two thirds before, but really irresponsible, because it wasn't disagreeable, it was strayed by the funding reformers on about their first kind of views of reality. Well, because of the... You know, he was arguing for an ontological view of the wave function, but then he was also saying that the wave function can be ontological in one context, but then it becomes still existological in another, and you can go from one context to the other, because in fact the very notion of reality is still in a certain type of relationship, and all that there are are equivalent.

5:00 Thank you very much for lending me that, sir. I'll try and see you on Monday. Okay, have a safe journey back to Troy. See you there, Bob.