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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is the Past Hypothesis a Law?
The past hypothesis is that only one time and the dynamical laws keep being true from moment to moment. So should we really throw them in the same bucket as laws of nature? You just mentioned Einstein. One of the lessons of Einstein is, what's so important about time anyway)? And I know in theory as a quantum gravity, there are views in which what's fundamental, it doesn't even involve space and time. They are emergent features. It's distribution is what determines the dimensionality and the fact that the dimensions can be divided up in a particular way. There are certain best ways of characterizing all of that, systematize all of that.
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