Vlad Tenev

If the laws of physics weren't exactly what they are, we probably would have never formed anything.

Yeah, because—and also, the universe has to be the exact age where one set of stars would have had to form and die and collapse, and we would have been—because our bodies are made of supernova debris, so there has to have been at least—we have to be second generation in a sense—

So those were the questions that kind of motivated me.

Like, where did we come from?

Why are the laws of physics the way they are?

Is there one fundamental force?

Like we know that electricity and magnetism, we found out that those were one force.

Radioactive decay, then we figured out was part of that.

Then we figured out the strong force.

Then the next one is

well if you follow that train all of the forces must have been one to begin with so there must have just been like one thing what is that that's what really i think motivated me just figuring that stuff out i think one of the things that i often think about from physics is the double slit experiment article or the wave yeah

Yeah, the double slit experiment is something that just sort of simple to understand, but I never really have been able to come up with, like actually the explanations that I can think of for it are kind of scary to me.

Scary in what way?

So the double slit experiment basically shows that by nature of

us observing something or it even being possible to be observed.

Its properties change.

So I think if you study quantum mechanics, which I did, they sort of say, well, everything's consistent, right?

The math just sort of explains it.

There's no spooky retro causality where you go back in time and change things.

But it's just that the observer and...