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Ep63 - Sean Carroll: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"

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The Wave Function of the Universe Branching

There were fewer separate branches of the wave function in the past than there are in the future. The initial conditions of our observable universe, 14 billion years ago near the Big Bang, were highly non-generic and very low entropy. Whatever cause, the wave function of the universe to have few branches explains everything since then. But following my philosophy that we want to understand what'sreally happening, you're still allowed to ask what's really happening.

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