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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

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

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The Future Evolution of the Early Universe

The fact that the early universe does not have crazy correlations, that's a fact but that's not a very surprising fact, that's just what you would expect. I think it's just a matter of convenience honestly and maybe it's cheating a little bit to even think about future correlations or future behavior when you're coming up with a characterization of the early state. It would be nicer to have a characterization ofthe early state that only referred to the early state itself,. Not to its future time evolution. So I suspect this particular argument is completely irrelevant once you take quantum mechanics into consideration. There's probably some specific rather than saying the early universe is one of various microstates that has the following

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