AMA | October 2024

12890.144 - 12913.134 Sean Carroll

But it's not like once you knew relativity, suddenly you could invent GPS. It's just that you could invent GPS that works correctly, okay? Quantum mechanics has led directly to modern electronics and other things, so I think that's a better example there. But we need to distinguish a couple things. One is the difference between fundamental physics and sort of higher level emergent physics, right?