28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Uncertainty in the Energy of the System
In standard quantum mechanics, you can't form these two positions when it's different back here. So what I do is to sort of say, okay, well let's go through as best we can and see if there's a kind of error that you could attribute. And then... The vacuum is an interesting place in quantum field theory. It's because the gravitational field of the thing is different that you can't sort of have a consistent description of both fields at once.
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