
Ep 77: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 1 "The Theory of Everything" Part 3
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The Anisotropy of the Cosmos
Charlie Lineweaver discovered the so-called anisotropy which is a fancy name for this lumpiness in the cosmic microwave background. The reason that you get these variations in the temperature goes back to quantum theory Stephen Hawking actually described it as like looking at the face of God. If we didn't have quantum mechanical laws presumably the universe would have been perfectly uniform and it would have expanded out such that you wouldn't get lumpiness. So I find that absolutely astounding it's astounding to think that the effects of quantum theory at the very smaller scales namely on the universe when it was much smaller than an atom can be seen today revealed today in the universe as a whole.
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