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We kind of mentioned in the beginning, can you elaborate, what do you feel hope is fundamental in our universe?

A wave function in Hilbert space that we can't intellectualize or visualize really?

We can't visualize it, we can intellectualize it very easily.

It's a vector in a 10 to the 10 to the 122 dimensional vector space.

It's a complex vector, unit norm, it evolves according to the Schrodinger equation.


Speaker 0: So time and space are emergent. We kind of mentioned in the beginning, can you elaborate, what do you feel hope is fundamental in our universe?

Speaker 1: A wave function living in Hilbert space.

Speaker 0: A wave function in Hilbert space that we can't intellectualize or visualize really?

Speaker 1: We can't visualize it, we can intellectualize it very easily. Like, well how do you think about... It's a vector in a 10 to the 10 to the 122 dimensional vector space. It's a complex vector, unit norm, it evolves according to the Schrodinger equation.

Speaker 0: Got it. When you you

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Sean Carroll: What is Fundamental in Physics?