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AMA | June 2022

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

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How Can Quanta Mechanics Increase Entropy?

If everything that will ever happen can be redicted by deterministic laws of physics, how can entropy increase? Wouldn't it mean that everything that will happen was already in code in the initial state of the universe. Douglas de young says, assuming many worlds, from the point of view of maxwell's demon, is the total information content of the universe static? And then rob griber says, does an ever ready interpretation of quanta mechanics suggest that as the universe approaches an era of proton decay in the distant future, there will be fewer worlds created?

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