Adam Becker

So, yeah, the answer is probably yes.

Yeah.

So quantum, I mean.

Quantum physics is the physics of the ultra tiny, except that we think that ultra tiny things make up the world around us.

So although it's the physics of the ultra tiny, there's also reason to think it's just the physics of everything.

Ontology is the study of what there is, of what's

stuff is in the world.

So quantum ontology is the study of, okay, what does quantum physics tell us is in the world?

Or, you know, the title of my book, right?

What is real?

And it is not clear what quantum physics tells us about the world.

It's just not clear at all, even though it's not a new theory.

It's been around for almost a hundred years.

Right.

So here's one way of looking at what the theory of relativity tells us.

So we sort of think from our everyday lives that...

If I'm standing still or if I'm in a car going at like 20 miles an hour, there are some things that just don't change between those two situations.

Like how fast my watch runs shouldn't change between those two situations or how far it is between my house and the movie theater down the street.

That shouldn't change either.

It turns out, though, that these things that we think of as not changing between those two situations, we call those things invariant because they don't vary.