Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.934

   > soon as it forms here, that chance immediately has to be annihilated to zero because you never get two spots. That has to be global and instantaneous change. And Einstein called that spooky

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/einstein/006-soon-as-it-forms-here-that-chance-immediately-has-to-be-anni.md

2. 02 · blog0.800

   But once the state S on an initial value surface is fully specified in sufficient detail including the entire environment of E , this state will generally be so complex that it is highly likely that a state of exactly this kind will never again occur in the history of the universe. That is, true causal regularities of the form “whenever S is instantiated E will occur” will be instantiated at most once. What, then, is the cause of an event E ? It is not enough for defenders of causation simply to give up the principle “same cause, same effect”. The challenge, according to the dominant cause arg…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/causation-in-physics.md

3. 03 · yt0.798

   - If everything happens, what does probability mean, right? If the electron will wind up here in one universe, there in another, there in another universe and so forth, in what sense is there a probability for it to be at one location or another? Because in the multiverse, it will, in the God's eye view, exist at every possible location. - There is no such thing as probability at a fundamental level. The world is completely deterministic. We were wrong to want probability to exist at a fundamental level. We only want it for making decisions. And if we apply it with conventional decision theory…

   yt/Af5LICjFIBc-what-is-quantum-mechanics-really-telling-us-world-science-fe/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.793

   This phenomenon, often called spooky action at a distance by Einstein, implies a faster than light influence seemingly contradicting relativity. The Nobel Prize-winning experiments precisely tested this conflict. They demonstrated that the instantaneous correlation predicted by quantum theory held true even when local hidden variables were ruled out. In essence, the experiments proved that quantum theory won. They confirmed the existence of these instantaneous non-local effects directly contradicting the classical local realism implied by Einsteinian relativity. Smith notes the immense signifi…

   yt/ldWRGJ7PaK0-0-bridging-cosmos-consciousness-and-humanity-a-deeper-scienc/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.786

   If the electron will wind up here in one universe, there in another, there in another, and so forth. In what sense is there a probability for it to be at one location or another? Because in the multiverse, it will, in the God's eye view, exist at every possible location. And you of course have pushed this problem to a place which I believe you think is a solution. - Yeah. - Can you just give a feel for how to resolve that conundrum? - Yes. So in my view, as you said, and not all colleagues agree with this, to put it mildly, but the ones who understand it, do. (both laughing) There is no such t…

   yt/Af5LICjFIBc-what-is-quantum-mechanics-really-telling-us-world-science-fe/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.782

   In basic physical terms, we talk about entropy increasing. Entropy being a measure of disorderliness, disorganization of the universe. Entropy goes goes up as time goes on. You start with orderly things like an unbroken egg and you can break the egg. That's easy. You can scramble it. putting the egg back together much much harder and will never happen all by itself. So the physicist's idea of the origin of time asymmetry in all of its different manifestations is what we call the second law of thermodynamics. The first law is boring. It says energy is conserved. Second law very interesting. It …

   yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.779

   God plays dice with the universe. If that's a complete theory if quantum theory tells you all there is then then you give up determinism. And people think that really upset Einstein. But the other thing is exactly as you say. Imagine you have this picture and you say, well this alpha particle or whatever is decaying electron, it isn't anywhere until the spot forms. So a moment before the spot formed here, there was some real physical likelihood probability chance that it formed way over here. But as soon as it forms here, that chance immediately has to be annihilated to zero because you never …

   yt/VbXEc9vpeIM-what-we-ve-gotten-wrong-about-quantum-physics-world-science-/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.778

   We would throw string theory away at that point, and gleefully, well, that's perhaps too strong a word, move on to other ideas. We are nowhere near that place at the moment, quite the contrary. Anybody who knows anything about the history of string theory knows that there have been mathematical miracle after mathematical miracle showing that the equations fit together in such a tight-knit manner, with such graceful elegance, that you are compelled to press on with a theory that after the first time pushed together gravity and quantum mechanics. And so, yeah, that would that would be what it wo…

   yt/nH8c60ZbSgw-live-q-a-with-brian-greene-world-science-festival/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.776

   In the second case, we keep the future fixed, insert a miracle just after 8.00 so that c doesn’t occur, and the past unfolds according to the (actual) laws.) Why is World 1 closer to actuality than is World 2? Lewis’s answer to that question comes from the fact that c leaves very many traces: at 8.02, for example, there is the egg cooking in the pan, the cracked empty shell in the bin, traces of raw egg on Gretta’s fingers, her memory of having just now cracked it, and so on. So in World 2, Gretta fails to crack the egg but then, shortly thereafter, seems to remember cracking it, there is the …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/counterfactual-theories-of-causation.md

10. 10 · yt0.774

    You can't actually  just figure out immediately how to jump ahead.   You are forced to live time as time actually  progresses, go through the steps one by one.   I think that's a sort of important distinction  between the computational way of thinking about   things and the mathematical one, where it's just  like there's going to be a formula for the result.  That's such a vital idea, computational  irreducibility. Again, just to reiterate what   you said, when we solve a physics problem we have  the answer, maybe it's …

    yt/yAJTctpzp5w-can-space-and-time-emerge-from-simple-rules-stephen-wolfram-/transcript.txt