Linus Melberg: Being local is being very special. He says if you imagine all the possible couplings between that cubic centimeter and all the other cubic centimeters in the universe, most of them have at least some interaction. "It's like saying I have a list of 100 numbers and they just happen to be in numerical order," he says.
Welcome to the July 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- 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.
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Blog post with questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/03/ama-july-2023/
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