Ep63 - Sean Carroll: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"
Talks at Google
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The Hardest Problem in Quantum Mechanics
Physicists tend to think about the world classically. They start with some classical description and then they quantize it, he says. Everett is the leanest and meanest when it comes to pieces of the theory itself. We have not yet successfully taken classical general relativity and applied the usual rules of quantization in a successful way,. That's why people are driven to consider alternatives like string theory or loop quantum gravity.
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