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Episode 32: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 3 - Symmetry and Novelty

The Theory of Anything

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The Hard Problem of Time

The emergence of space time is what gives meaning to locality, ok, in special and general activity. And if that's all there was to space time, then, yes, sure, locality, that's it. We've got everything we need. But as i'm about to present to you, i think the problem, the hard problem of time, ah, it really has pushed us at least a little bit further away from our current theories. What we really need is a theory of theand evolutionary theory of the universe. To give a global notion of time, we might actually require this type of locality. It might have to be a feature of the world.

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