Emily Adlam

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Emily Adlam: Reality Is a Completed Puzzle, Not a Flowing River · 11 Apr 2025 podcast

You know, I think there's more work to be done here on understanding what the space of possibilities look like and how that the space of possibilities is related to the constraints and to the properties that we see in our everyday lives.

But that's the general picture.

that you have possibilities narrowed down and then when it's going to be selected.

Yeah, I think uh the story that we should tell about space-time here is uh certainly still a work in progress.

Um, you know, in my previous work on the subject, I've just kind of taken space-time as as given and imagined, you know, let's select the constraints are just gonna tell you how things are distributed across space-time.

But certainly that I think can't be the right final answer because uh, you know, modern physics and particularly quantum gravity

tells us that space-time probably emerges from something something more fundamental.

So I think ultimately that the right story is going to be more complex than that.

Uh but exactly how to formulate that is is not clear, partly because the quantum gravity itself is not fully formulated and there's still a lot of open questions to be resolved there.

Yes, that's a great question.

Um, like ultimately I think at least some aspects of the way space time is have got to come from consistency constraints.

Uh so for example, uh you can if if using the process matrix formalism, for example, you can see that there's going to be a need.

Uh if you want to have consistency, there's there's usually going to be a need for things to occur in some well defined order.

Uh well defined order stops the stops processes from looping

Back on themselves and producing contradictions.

So I think from those kinds of consistency constraints, you can get already the idea that there's got to be some kind of something like a temporal dimension, which is different from the spatial dimensions.

Mm-hmm.

I also think you can get the idea that it needs to have a sort of a relativistic space-time structure from the observation that if you have uh superluminal signaling, for example, you can use that.

that to create a loop which goes around and which uh could then uh also be used to create logical contradictions.

So consistency is also going to give you something like the light cone structure of space-time.

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