Live Blogging: Butterfield

Second section: Halfway through the woods

So we have relativity and the quantum, but it may well be that the quantum will have to mend its ways more than relativity in an ultimate reconciliation, due to the “scandal of the measurement problem”. So Rovelli is right about that we are “halfway through the woods”, but there is a more detailed time-scale of relevant developments, such as the evolution of philosophy of physics since around 1970, which is now in seamless contact with foundations.

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