Adam Becker

Temperature is an emergent property.

It's not a property that individual subatomic particles can have.

It's something that only aggregate collections of stuff have.

these things in this world around us can emerge out of that lower level in the same way that temperature is a property that emerges out of the lower level, you know, little jostlings of tiny things because that's where temperature comes from.

It's, you know, a tiny object, a tiny piece of that wall is moving around a little bit and all that jiggling together comes out and looks to us like temperature.

That's a real thing.

That wall is actually a temperature.

And we are here and we are having this conversation, even if, you know, the perception that there is such a thing as space and time is something that emerges out of some lower level of reality.

There's still a space and a time that we're in, even if it's not fundamental.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Are you ready?

I mean, I'm never going to be completely ready.

Right.

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Oh, I mean, that's a great question.

Quantum physics explains a huge variety of natural phenomena.

Like without quantum physics, we wouldn't understand why the sun shines.