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Sandy Shaller's avatar

Michael I loved this article and the research you put into it. I love "The Three Body Problem," and "Snow Crash." One of the most important parts of the article, for me, is the amazing ability of certain minds to use mathematics, physics and imagination to construct theories that have yet to become a reality. As a young teacher, I had a boy in my class who I was having a terrible time challenging in math. It wasn't enough to give him harder problems or more abstract numbers, he was in another place entirely. His name was Brian Greene. I went back to my graduate school, Columbia University, and got ideas to challenge Brian, but I'm not sure I ever really did.

Brian Greene is a prominent physicist and science communicator known for his work on superstring theory, particularly his book "The Elegant Universe" which popularized the concept. I read the book and still struggled to understand.

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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

This is one interpretation of how the Galactic AI comes into being, or functions. Especially seeing as this sort of entanglement works across time as well as space.

There's loads of lovely philosophical implications of this (along with a lot of cool ideas for Sci-Fi stories). Examples: https://inadifferentplace.substack.com/p/quantum-topography-101-tau-ceti-three?r=2s9hod

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