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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory

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

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The Wave Function at the Universe

The general framework of quantum cosmology, it seems to me has been able to capture a few key foundational features of how we go about thinking about the quantum universe. These these these toy models do capture certain essential features. The universe, the fact that the universe inflates at early times. And also, as we all know from quantum mechanics, active observation plays a crucial role. We keep saying we don't understand quantum gravity, but I think we are we're still way along.

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