Sean Carroll

So by entanglement, to get time to emerge, you take advantage of that by saying that there is some clock subsystem that that is entangled with the rest of the universe, okay, and then superpositions that you can take different states corresponding to different configurations at different times and just adding them together in an overall static wave function.

So by entanglement, to get time to emerge, you take advantage of that by saying that there is some clock subsystem that that is entangled with the rest of the universe, okay, and then superpositions that you can take different states corresponding to different configurations at different times and just adding them together in an overall static wave function.

But space is just a different kind of thing. Like we said, that evolution through time that is characteristic of the time dimension doesn't happen in the same way in space. So it really is a different kind of thing. Ultimately, probably you want to have everything be unified, but that's tricky to do for a number of reasons.

But space is just a different kind of thing. Like we said, that evolution through time that is characteristic of the time dimension doesn't happen in the same way in space. So it really is a different kind of thing. Ultimately, probably you want to have everything be unified, but that's tricky to do for a number of reasons.

So in the specific approach that I was talking about in that podcast, time is just a very different kind of thing than space. Ben Lloyd asks a priority question. I need your help with something. This might seem weird, but my biggest fear by far is that at some point everything will end forever. I'm not really scared that our civilization will likely not be able to survive the heat death.

So in the specific approach that I was talking about in that podcast, time is just a very different kind of thing than space. Ben Lloyd asks a priority question. I need your help with something. This might seem weird, but my biggest fear by far is that at some point everything will end forever. I'm not really scared that our civilization will likely not be able to survive the heat death.

My main fear is that the universe will end. Nothing interesting will be able to happen anywhere forever, and no multiverse scenarios that would contradict what would turn out to be true. Luckily, many theories or hypotheses make it so that interesting things would happen forever. For example, inflation is the dominant theory for explaining the early universe and how it evolved.

My main fear is that the universe will end. Nothing interesting will be able to happen anywhere forever, and no multiverse scenarios that would contradict what would turn out to be true. Luckily, many theories or hypotheses make it so that interesting things would happen forever. For example, inflation is the dominant theory for explaining the early universe and how it evolved.

And many prominent proponents of inflation often say that eternal inflation is almost inevitable once you get inflation. In eternal inflation, there would be continuously new universes forever. The next biggest competing theories to inflation are cyclic models, etc.

And many prominent proponents of inflation often say that eternal inflation is almost inevitable once you get inflation. In eternal inflation, there would be continuously new universes forever. The next biggest competing theories to inflation are cyclic models, etc.

I've always needed this sort of existential comfort, but more than that, I need to believe things that have evidence and things that could be true. That's why I'm not religious. Anyway, what do you think of this? Do you align more with my view? I really don't align with your view.

I've always needed this sort of existential comfort, but more than that, I need to believe things that have evidence and things that could be true. That's why I'm not religious. Anyway, what do you think of this? Do you align more with my view? I really don't align with your view.

You know, I think that I can't let my life here on Earth be vastly affected by things that are going to happen long after the last star stops burning. This is something that I can imagine, but not something that affects my life in any way. I am entirely at peace with the idea that the universe might someday end. Maybe the last living creatures in such a universe will be sad, and that I understand.

You know, I think that I can't let my life here on Earth be vastly affected by things that are going to happen long after the last star stops burning. This is something that I can imagine, but not something that affects my life in any way. I am entirely at peace with the idea that the universe might someday end. Maybe the last living creatures in such a universe will be sad, and that I understand.

That makes perfect sense. But we are so enormously far away from that that no, it doesn't really affect me very much.

That makes perfect sense. But we are so enormously far away from that that no, it doesn't really affect me very much.

And in fact, it's sort of important to not let it affect you too much if you're a scientist or philosopher, because then it will point you towards sort of giving more credence to certain theories than might otherwise be appropriate, even though you don't have a lot of evidence really for them.

And in fact, it's sort of important to not let it affect you too much if you're a scientist or philosopher, because then it will point you towards sort of giving more credence to certain theories than might otherwise be appropriate, even though you don't have a lot of evidence really for them.

Funky Town says, for the first few decades of my life, I lived, first two decades of my life, I lived in a very small bubble with limited knowledge of the universe's workings and a huge emphasis on religion and the Bible as final truth. For the last decade of my life, I found myself diverging from my original worldview and considering myself a little more enlightened.

Funky Town says, for the first few decades of my life, I lived, first two decades of my life, I lived in a very small bubble with limited knowledge of the universe's workings and a huge emphasis on religion and the Bible as final truth. For the last decade of my life, I found myself diverging from my original worldview and considering myself a little more enlightened.