[FRIAM] Sean x Carrol

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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.
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> 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.
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> —Barry
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> On 19 Jul 2021, at 21:42, David Eric Smith wrote:
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>     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 


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