Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:26 am
Like you, when he says that he isn't distinguishing between "properties of things aren't singular and definite before measurement" and "the thing itself doesn't exist in any sense before measurement". I think that's a worthwhile thing to distinguish. Bells theorem makes the first statement, not the second one. Even if you can find some science popularizer who, out of context, seems to support what you're saying.
science popularizer??
Given the awards and honors below, I have the confidence Professor Jim Al-Khalili do have some degree of credibility, until some more credible physicists point out he is a fake.
Awards and honours
2007 – Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for science communication
2008 – Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 Birthday Honours
2013 – Warwick Prize for Writing, shortlist, Pathfinders
2014 – RISE leader award[37]
2013 – Honorary Doctor of Science, Royal Holloway, University of London[23]
2016 – Inaugural winner of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication[38]
2017 – Honorary Doctorate, University of York[39]
2018 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[24]
2019 – Honorary Doctor of Science, University of St Andrews[40]
2019 – Outstanding Achievement in Science & Technology at The Asian Awards.[41]
2021 - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), "for Services to Science and Public Engagement in STEM."[25]
2022 – Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Birmingham
Note I just do not take his words alone but depend on support from many other sources which I had read which i had not kept as a record to reproduce easily.