AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Top Down Approach to Cosmology
We can talk about the classical world that we see, but let's not extend this classical picture too far away. That seems to me to be the lesson. We regard the universe as we observe it around us as a kind of starting point for which of the many possible histories of the universe contribute to what we see and what we observe. And that is important because it provides you selecting those histories or selecting those subset of branches in the wave function then allows you to make predictions for future observations.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode