{"id":158623,"date":"2023-02-21T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/sean-carroll-on-quantum-spacetime"},"modified":"2023-02-21T00:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:25:20","slug":"sean-carroll-on-quantum-spacetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/sean-carroll-on-quantum-spacetime","title":{"rendered":"Sean Carroll on Quantum Spacetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sean Carroll on Quantum Spacetime\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oo2wLTd_-QM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interview with Prof. Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics at Caltech and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. We mainly talk about quantum spacetime: the idea that our familiar spacetime might be actually emergent from some complex quantum mechanical system. We cover entanglement, decoherence, entropic gravity, the AdS\/CFT correspondence, string theory, black holes, along with several philosophical questions concerning these topics, including reduction and emergence, substantivalism vs. relationalism, monism, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Sean\u2019s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/\">https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/<\/a><br \/> His recent book concerning these topics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/somethingdeeplyhidden\/\">https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/somethingdeeplyhidden\/<\/a><br \/> His papers on these topics can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/research\/annotated-publications\/\">https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/research\/annotated-publications\/<\/a><br \/> His podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/podcast\/\">https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/podcast\/<\/a><br \/> And his Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\/\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Prof. Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics at Caltech and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. We mainly talk about quantum spacetime: the idea that our familiar spacetime might be actually emergent from some complex quantum mechanical system. We cover entanglement, decoherence, entropic gravity, the AdS\/CFT correspondence, string theory, black holes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}