AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Comparison to the Multiverse Story
I suspect strongly that in most known principled ways of comparing the likelihood of those two possibilities, the empty universe is going to come out more likely. I will go on the record as saying that would be great and I don't believe you. But we can talk about that. Okay. You should be skeptical. I am skeptical. I think that even I could claim that you can specify to whatever level of detail you want the world around us to 100,000 parsecs in every direction surrounded by vacuum and everything is perfectly fine. That's not true. It doesn't matter how carefully I specify my current observations here in the Big Bang. I can always embed them in a universe sorry here
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode