Shawn Ryan

So there's a lot of cool stuff that you can see where like, yes, that's not in doubt.

I think the thing that I latch onto, because again, it's too, it's close to this, like, is your framework even physical?

Is like the statement about like,

some parameter like the cosmological constant in Einstein's equations and whether everything I do I'm like a flat earther as far as like cosmology is concerned because I just set it to zero and like now there's some experiment saying maybe that's okay no but not but uh like what things are constant versus uh functions of other things that continue for time roughly

You're not a flat-earther.

No, no, I'm joking.

So I don't want to encourage a flat-earther, sorry.

So like, you know, like, sorry.

So the sense of which you're on the earth and you see like the curvature scale of the horizon or whatever, or you're not seeing and you're saying the world is flat.

There is a, I'm just trying to make a joke and probably it's dangerous to do it at the actual platform of the fact that like, you know, do we see the curvature scales of like the universe, the cosmological constant at the scales where I care about it for particle detectors or for these gravitational waves from LIGO?

And I'm always setting this constant to zero instead of like, whatever, 10 to the negative, like large power.

No, no, no.

I'm sorry.

I think I'm saying, I'm not saying no.

I think you're right.

But I'm saying that the physicists are worried more about like, why is it, right?

Like, is there a reason that there is some like various like cosmological constant there?

Or like, is it all just like the different like matter distributions and things like that that try to govern the reason where you're going?

So...

I should have just said, yeah.