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AMA | June 2023

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

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The Importance of Visualization in Physics

Our observable universe, if you push it all the way back to the Planck scale, was something like a centimeter across. We don't know for sure because we don't know when inflation and the deep inflation did happen. If I were to meet you, I would definitely be a little bit star-struck and nervous to say hello,. since you're the only famous person I have a chance to communicate with regularly. You essentially said that you may view me as famous, but it largely goes unnoticed in my day-to-day life. It's more important to understand the equations that generalize from simple cases than visualize them. Some kinds of intuition are going to be quite visual

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