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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is the Vector in Hilbert Space a Vector?
The world is mathematically represented as a vector in Hilbert space. It can't just be a Vector, it's something that's a mathematics. I want to understand better how the fact that this vector represents this sui-generous thing of the world, I don't dislike that. Whatever it is, it has an arena. Part of the world is an arena, some sort of spacetime. And that somehow, whatever is going on in it is going to give rise to the smoke dispersing. But I haven't really fully understood quite how it's done. Maybe it's just my lack of imagination.
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