Sean Carroll

And a beautiful, exquisite agreement between the calculations and the predictions without...

knowing what's going on without preying on what's actually happening in the world.

And there's a whole bunch of physicists who will say, oh no, understanding what is actually happening in the world, that's not my job.

I'm just here to make predictions.

I strongly feel that's not right.

I'm here to help understand what is going on in the world.

Well, I think that we have multiple competing ways to understand it.

We have not agreed on the correct way.

That's the difference.

But like you said, we can make the prediction to exquisite accuracy.

People tested the prediction.

They won the Nobel Prize for it last year.

That was what the Physics Nobel Prize was given for.

And by the way, the whole reason we know and care about entanglement was because Einstein

Stein in 1935 was trying very hard to figure out what really is going on, right?

And he didn't quite succeed.

He didn't get the answer there, but it's that drive to understand that led here.

And ultimately, what we can say, I think, with some confidence is that what the world is, is not a bunch of separate particles doing their own thing.

It looks like a bunch of separate particles under certain very clear circumstances.

But in other circumstances like this entanglement business, it doesn't.