- Nov 07, 2020
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- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It's all because of entropy increasing.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it's also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it's a little bit underappreciated.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches back to the days of Heraclitus and Parmenides, pre-Socratic thinkers who are staples of introductory philosophy courses.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential. Time might instead emerge to play an important role in the macroscopic world of our experience, even if it is nowhere to be found in the final Theory of Everything.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility of that idea with other things we think we know.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic physics of atoms and electrons would have to be altered in order for this to be true. If we tried, the fundamental absurdity of the task would quickly become evident.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you say you're a physicist, there's a certain fraction of people who immediately go, 'Oh, I hated physics in high school.' That's because of the terrible influence of high school physics. Because of it, most people think physics is all about inclined planes and force-vector diagrams.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.
- Hard Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the universe is made of a handful of particles. That's not a hard thing to know. But that's not what's emphasized.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020