Our best current theories of the world, in terms of predicting things and being accurately mapped to data are quantum field theories. And gravity changes everything a little bitsofor folks who are not experts in these buzz words. Joel curtis says he has no idea why our most successful theories explain interactions and forces in terms of local gauge symmetries is explanatory in any deep sense.
Welcome to the May 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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