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AMA | June 2022

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

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Are There Only Some Small Number of Fields That Make Up Everything?

There could be fields that we haven't yet discovered cause they don't interact very strongly with the stuff that we do in our laboratories. Dark matter is probably some exitation of some quantum field, thoughwe just don't know which field it is right now. Joham: We've had millions of years of life on earth creating a what we think of as fossil fuels - and there's only a finite amount of it. But there's other things you can do with these fossil fuels. You can make plastics and other materials. They're crucially important for scientific research and so forth. And this is a very valuable resource, cause these are complex molecules.

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