Every Force in Nature (Theory of Everything, Part III)
In which we explain economic equilibrium, how to make money from nothing, and every fundamental force in physics. If you'd like to read a (very) rigorous description of gauge theory in economics,...
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We know the universe has stuff in it called "matter" that takes up space. And the universeisn't just static - things happen, too! To be more precise, matter interacts with othermatter, like the pull of the earth and the moon on each other, or the mutual repulsionof your feet and the ground.We might think that these interactions are just traffic laws imposed by an obtuse pan-galacticregulatory committee… but in fact, the real answer is much deeper, and more bizarre: interactionshappen simply because you (and by you I mean "the universe") can measure things differentlyin different places.But wait a second: regardless of whether I measure a person to be 6 feet or 183 cm tall,they're still the same height! So measu...
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We know the universe has stuff in it called "matter" that takes up space. And the universeisn't just static - things happen, too! To be more precise, matter interacts with othermatter, like the pull of the earth and the moon on each other, or the mutual repulsionof your feet and the ground.We might think that these interactions are just traffic laws imposed by an obtuse pan-galacticregulatory committee… but in fact, the real answer is much deeper, and more bizarre: interactionshappen simply because you (and by you I mean "the universe") can measure things differentlyin different places.But wait a second: regardless of whether I measure a person to be 6 feet or 183 cm tall,they're still the same height! So measu...
