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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Quanum Field Theory
In standard particle physics, we talk about virtual particles. They are always part particle anti particle pairs tt that are sort of popping into existence in the vacuum for a very short time and then annihilating. But quanterfield theory says there's an infinite number of these virtual particles that are recurring all over the universe. In einstein's equations say, you know, whenever you have energy, you are going to curl up the universe with no gravitational attraction. With that energy, how can the universe not curl up into a tiny ball? And we don't yet know the answer.
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