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AMA | February 2023
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is Spacetime Emergent?
In general relativity, when spacetime can be curved, at every point in spacetime there is something called what it would mean to move slower than the speed of light. To travel in a space-like direction from that point in Spacetime would mean to moving faster than the speedof light. At every point there might be a different notion of what it means to move forward in time. Paul Cronin asks, if spacetime is emergent, what could it be emergent from? Would love your gut feeling on this?" I think by the structure of the question is pretty clear, it presumes there is something from which the spacetime is Emergent," he says.
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