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Sean Carroll: What is Fundamental in Physics?


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So time and space are emergent. We kind of mentioned in the beginning, can you elaborate, what do you feel hope is fundamental in our universe? A wave function living in Hilbert space. A wave function in Hilbert space that we can't intellectualize or visualize really. We can't visualize it, we can intellectualize it very easily.

Like how do you think about... It's a vector in a 10 to the 10 to the 122 dimensional vector space. The complex vector unit norm, it evolves according to the Schrodinger equation. Got it. When you put it that way. What's so hard really? It's like... Yep. Yep.