Sean Carroll

But there are these other fields where apparently there exist people who just write, I don't know, 100 papers a year, which is essentially impossible. It's not the field's fault because that's not typical in that field, but you can get away with doing that. I can't even read 100 papers a year. But obviously there's a lot of churn here.

People are leaning on other co-authors to do writing or they're just taking something they've already written and rewriting it 10 different times and submitting it as an extra paper, etc. But that's not my world. In that world, AI might be very, very helpful if all you're trying to do is maximize the number of papers you submit somewhere and publish them in junk journals or whatever.

People are leaning on other co-authors to do writing or they're just taking something they've already written and rewriting it 10 different times and submitting it as an extra paper, etc. But that's not my world. In that world, AI might be very, very helpful if all you're trying to do is maximize the number of papers you submit somewhere and publish them in junk journals or whatever.

That I don't really follow, so I wouldn't know. In the field that I'm in, I don't think that I've noticed anything at all as a result of AI, except that people are writing papers about AI, which makes perfect sense. As to the next Einstein thing, when I read this question at first, I thought, no, I don't think that there has been an uptick or a change in quality.

That I don't really follow, so I wouldn't know. In the field that I'm in, I don't think that I've noticed anything at all as a result of AI, except that people are writing papers about AI, which makes perfect sense. As to the next Einstein thing, when I read this question at first, I thought, no, I don't think that there has been an uptick or a change in quality.

And I think that there's an explanation for that psychologically. You know, the people who think of the next Einstein, they don't want to hand over credit to AI, right? They don't want to say, well, you know, the AI and I put this together. They want to say that their own personal genius is responsible for this.

And I think that there's an explanation for that psychologically. You know, the people who think of the next Einstein, they don't want to hand over credit to AI, right? They don't want to say, well, you know, the AI and I put this together. They want to say that their own personal genius is responsible for this.

But having thought of it and having a few days gone by, it is possible that I'm getting more of those emails. I've always gotten a lot. Arguably, the numbers are small, but it's possible that I'm getting more now. And so maybe they're just not telling me and they are indeed helping themselves to a little bit of AI help when making up their theories of everything. Look, life is short.

But having thought of it and having a few days gone by, it is possible that I'm getting more of those emails. I've always gotten a lot. Arguably, the numbers are small, but it's possible that I'm getting more now. And so maybe they're just not telling me and they are indeed helping themselves to a little bit of AI help when making up their theories of everything. Look, life is short.

I don't spend a lot of time paying attention to those papers. So as soon as I can tell that the email is from someone who has a new theory of everything, all they need is for me to fill in the math, that gets filed pretty quickly.

I don't spend a lot of time paying attention to those papers. So as soon as I can tell that the email is from someone who has a new theory of everything, all they need is for me to fill in the math, that gets filed pretty quickly.

Janderson or some version of Letters and Numbers says, in your recent solo episode number 300, you present a way time might be modeled as emerging from the universal wave function. Am I right in assuming that this method could also be used to produce any number of other dimensions of space and time perhaps?

Janderson or some version of Letters and Numbers says, in your recent solo episode number 300, you present a way time might be modeled as emerging from the universal wave function. Am I right in assuming that this method could also be used to produce any number of other dimensions of space and time perhaps?

Well, the particular method that I was talking about, the idea, doesn't really work with space. It doesn't really make sense. What you're trying to do is take advantage of the fact that there is two features of quantum mechanics, number one, entanglement, and number two, superposition.

Well, the particular method that I was talking about, the idea, doesn't really work with space. It doesn't really make sense. What you're trying to do is take advantage of the fact that there is two features of quantum mechanics, number one, entanglement, and number two, superposition.

So by entanglement, to get time to emerge, you take advantage of that by saying that there is some clock subsystem that that is entangled with the rest of the universe, okay, and then superpositions that you can take different states corresponding to different configurations at different times and just adding them together in an overall static wave function.

So by entanglement, to get time to emerge, you take advantage of that by saying that there is some clock subsystem that that is entangled with the rest of the universe, okay, and then superpositions that you can take different states corresponding to different configurations at different times and just adding them together in an overall static wave function.

But space is just a different kind of thing. Like we said, that evolution through time that is characteristic of the time dimension doesn't happen in the same way in space. So it really is a different kind of thing. Ultimately, probably you want to have everything be unified, but that's tricky to do for a number of reasons.

But space is just a different kind of thing. Like we said, that evolution through time that is characteristic of the time dimension doesn't happen in the same way in space. So it really is a different kind of thing. Ultimately, probably you want to have everything be unified, but that's tricky to do for a number of reasons.

So in the specific approach that I was talking about in that podcast, time is just a very different kind of thing than space. Ben Lloyd asks a priority question. I need your help with something. This might seem weird, but my biggest fear by far is that at some point everything will end forever. I'm not really scared that our civilization will likely not be able to survive the heat death.