Sean Carroll

Now, if you mean, would it still be useful for external observers, not in that universe, to use math to describe what goes on in the universe, then yes.

I mean, even if there's just random numbers, we use math to describe random numbers, right?

We have probability distributions, we calculate means, all sorts of things.

So I think that math is just very flexible.

It's something that would exist, would be useful in just about any circumstance.

It might be more or less useful depending on the circumstances, but it would definitely be there.

Chris Rogers says, occasionally I think about how complexity can arise as entropy increases.

As I was swirling milk into my coffee, it got me thinking.

What are your caffeine habits?

Are you a coffee or tea man, and how many cups a day?

Also, if I may ask a follow-up question, I heard a rumor that electric kettles are not a thing in the U.S.

As a Brit, this is hard to comprehend.

How do you make tea?

Good.

I'm mostly a coffee kind of guy.

I like tea, too.

I'm not actually that...

doctrinaire about these things.

After many years of experimentation, I had my coffee making routine down to a routine, I guess.

I went through lots of different possibilities and actually settled on the lowest tech simplest one, which is I do grind my beans.