What Happens Inside the Wavefunction? Sean Carroll at the 5th FQXi Meeting

_{Updated on 11 November 2016.} Video of Sean Carroll's' talk is now up. More video is available on FQXi's youtube channel.

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From 21 August 2016:

On Friday, cosmologist Sean Carroll spoke about his latest research into the emergence of space -- and maybe gravity -- from quantum entanglement.

Sophie Hebden has profiled Carroll's work for us, in the article "In Search of a Quantum Spacetime." Many physicists, when trying to think about what the world looks like on small scales, start with a classical framework -- a picture of the world in which objects have definite properties -- and then try to modify it to make it quantum. Carroll and his colleagues argue that nature is fundamentally quantum and work their way back to the world we see around us from that staring point.

Listen to the audio from his talk to find out more about this, and the idea of describing the evolution of systems in terms of "quantum circuits."

More to follow soon...