Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space Sean M. Carroll https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09780
On 7/20/21 7:49 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > One of the (trivial, granted) ways the universe amuses me is that there are > two Sean Carrols, one of whom authored ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’. I > first heard of that book on a Friday morning at St. John’s. The are both > prominent in their fields (physics and biology) and are very good > popularizers. > > At times, when my critical faculties are sleeping, I can imagine that at some > point the universe split and re-merged with itself and that the Sean Carrols > represent a glitch in the merging process. That would explain that there are > two of them, very similar in many ways and yet distinct. > > —Barry > > On 19 Jul 2021, at 21:42, David Eric Smith wrote: > > Anyway, what came up today was a Sean Carroll interview with Wolfram, > which fronts hypergraphs as Wolfram’s base-level abstraction. It is a couple -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/