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AMA | September 2022

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

CHAPTER

Is There a Difference Between North and South?

Seth Holowenko: Can you think of any meaningful differences that might exist in science and society if we decided tomorrow that the north was actually down rather than up? Chris Murray says, how do you reconcile the Beckenstein bound with the fact that even a single real number requires an infinite amount of information to describe? Our world seems to have real numbers all over the place.

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