PBS Spacetime Presents: “Theory of Everything” Livestream Max Tegmark, James Beacham, Stephon Alexander (#061)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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The Anthropic Principle and the Multiverse
The anthropic principle is about making predictions for what observers should observe and then doing experiments to see if those predictions are born out or not. We simply don't know what electroweak symmetry breaking is, so the current standard model could be a placeholder. And it could be actually, the Higgs is also the Higgs and discovering its true nature might actually have clues to quantum gravity. That might be my next book, Winning that I'll talk about.
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