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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
The Wave Function of the Universe
When we say the quantum state of a system, that's something that we are very used to treating as a quantum mechanical object. So it's a function of every possible location, we could measure it. What we really mean and certainly what Stephen meant in the 80s by a wave function of the universe is very much a wave function," he says. "It describes a superposition of various possible universes"
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