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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory

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

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The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Steven strict: I'm trying to work with an interpretation of quantum theory that doesn't require anything external. The funny thing in cosmology though, we often think about quantum mechanics and the many world interpretation when we think about future branches. In a sense, you could say the multiverse, it's almost we are behaving as if we have access to an infinite amount of information. Whereas of course, from an observer's perspective within the universe, there's the extent to which our observations distill one or another branch of the wave function is finite.

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