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AMA | August 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Entropy of the Black Hole

We live in a universe that is accelerating, so we're approaching a deciter universe. That means we have a horizon around us, and we are at the centre of that horizon. What it might mean is that to us, the entire outside world is equivalent to a set of degrees of freedom on our horizon around us. And what that might mean, maybe, who knows. This is just a speculation. We're not sure about any of this stuff. It's very different than this classical picture, where there's an infinite number of things that can happen far away. So you take that idea and you combine it with the idea that there are multiple vacuum states that we might be able to

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