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AMA | June 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How Many Times the Wave Function of the Universe Has Split?

We don't know whether hilbert's space, the space of all possible quantum wave functions, is infinite dimensional or finite. The number depends on details about quanogravity - which we have no idea about. But one way or the other, the answer is a loct it splits very, very often. And i'm always suspicious of attempts to say, this is what counts as an planation, and then demand that nature live up to that. We're trying to understand how nature works. It just means tha singularity is not a point in space. It's a moment of time, full stop.

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