What’s the measure problem telling us? Here’s what I think: that there’s a fundamentally flawed assumption at the very foundation of modern physics. The failures of classical mechanics required switching to quantum mechanics, and I think that today’s best theories similarly need a major shakeup. Nobody knows for sure where the root of the problem lies, but I have my suspicions. Here’s my prime suspect: ∞. In fact, I have two suspects: “infinitely big” and “infinitely small.” By infinitely big, I mean the idea that space can have infinite volume, that time can continue forever, and that there
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