![]() There is also lot of talk about the arrow of time, alien civilisations, and the Future of Sex. Laura Mersini-Houghton who talked about the possibility of finding evidence for the multiverse through entanglement on super-horizon scales is one of the more conservative here. Depending on your taste, you might call them courageous or nuts. There's Olaf Dreyer speculating on the origin of space and time from matter, Paul Davies on the relevance of increasing complexity in the evolution of the universe and the role of the observer, Anthony Agiurre about false vacuum bubbles, Eduardo Guendelman on the possibiliy to create universes, Fotini Markopoulou on the emergence of space from a non-geometric phase in the early universe, and Louis Crane on black holes as power sources. (I think it's by accident rather than design he's the only one.)īut what really stands that the topics discussed are bold. There are also some philosophers here, and one experimentalist. ![]() Here, we have a mix of "fundamental" fields, covering cosmology, quantum mechanics, quantum information and quantum gravity. And while that is very efficient for exchanging recent results, it also becomes repetitive rather easily. ![]() Most conferences these days feature a monoculture of specialists in one particular area. One reason is certainly the variety of topics. It has taken me a while to pin down why I find the meeting considerably more interesting than conferences I usually go to. They have a university, but it's distributed over three islands and focuses on the hands-on fields, engineering, economics, medicine etc. The Azorians seem to live mostly from agriculture and tourism. ![]() On the other hand, it doesn't hurt so much then to sit in a deep-frozen seminar room. San Miguel is stunningly beautiful, though the weather has been mostly cloudy and rainy. Some of you correctly noticed the only purpose of this meeting is to annoy everybody who isn't here. As previously mentioned, I am currently at the FQXi conference in Ponta Delgada on San Miguel, Azores. ![]()
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