The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | Q&A 21 - Emergence

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe is a series of videos where I talk informally about some of the fundamental concepts that help us understand our natural world. Exceedingly casual, not overly polished, and meant for absolutely everybody.

This is the Q&A video for Idea #21, "Emergence." I took the opportunity to just give a mini explanation on the work I and others have recently been doing on understanding the emergence of spacetime. Here are some relevant research papers:

Mad-Dog Everettianism: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08132
Locality from the Spectrum: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06142
Finite-Dimensional Hilbert Space: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00066
The Einstein Equation of State: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9504004
Space from Hilbert Space: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08444
Einstein's Equation from Entanglement: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02803
Quantum Mereology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12938

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