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AMA | July 2022

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

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Rubber Balloon Analogy

Some analogies are better than others. Every analogy has the problem that parts of the analogy are supposed to tell you something about the thing being analogized, and parts are supposed to be ignored. The block universe does not imply eternal life in any sense at all. Different moments of time are real at different moments of time. They're just equally real. Immortality means you live through all the moments of time, and in the block universe, you don't. So i think wen toapologize, walter. I know this is a priority question, but i don't get it. Eric dovigi: Why do objects bend space time? Nina: There's two kind

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