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Nicolas Gisin on intuitionism, indeterminacy, quantum gravity

Thing in itself

CHAPTER

The Thickness of Time

At the end of time, indeed, all the digits are there. But at any finite time, even there, 1,000 years or whatever, there will only be a finite amount of information. And so you have this evolution going like that. This is the pressure. And the pressure has zero thickness and somehow zero existence. It's just one number here. It's an infinitely thin slice. Is that where the idea of a thick time comes from? Yeah, and we try to remember how does that go with this? That you can have really these kind of processes to these numbers that they've evolved?"

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