Adam Becker

I think everyone I hope everyone can agree that temperature is a real thing.

Like things have temperatures.

You know, I can I can take my my cool, nerdy infrared thermometer and point it at the wall and it will tell me that the wall is seventy four point six degrees Fahrenheit because we live in a country that doesn't know how to measure temperature.

But the thing is temperature, according to our best understanding of temperature in physics, it comes out of thermodynamics, which is itself something that comes out of statistical physics, a really, really interesting field of physics.

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.

For the weirdness that is Patreon.