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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

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

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The Convenience of Sub-Centivalism in Quantum Physics

The idea of sub-centivalism spaces a thing all by itself versus relationalism spaces is not clear to me. I think that in my view, space should be thought of as a convenient way to talk about relationships between different subsystems in the quantum mechanical wave function. In that sense, I am closer to being a relationalist than a sub- centivalist. For everyday physics, you know, predicting gravitational wave signatures from LIGO, sub-Centivalism might be the way to go.

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