AMA | September 2024

12977.897 - 13001.308 Sean Carroll

To do that, I ignore various other things like the photons bumping off of the Moon and so forth, right? So I have the system I care about, the Moon. I also have the environment, like all the photons in the solar system. That's a division. That's what mereology is about, the relationship between wholes and parts. So usually, we go backwards. We say, I have photons. I have the moon.