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AMA | May 2022

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

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Is Inertia a Fact About the Universe?

Inertia is just a fact about the universe, as m a in the newtonian limit. It doesn't really affect whether or not there is another particle, charged particle b, far away. Would this mean entanglement might play a crucial role at the big bang? Sure, but we don't know. This is all very speculative right now. Anders hanson says quantum electro-mechanical dynamics could be one of the most accurate theories in science.

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