Juan Maldacena - Does Information Create the Cosmos?

Scientists see information in all the regularities of the physical world that we often call laws. But does information generate these laws, as some scientists now claim, or do they simply explain them, as most scientists have always assumed? What is the role of information in creating the cosmos?

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Juan Martín Maldacena is an Argentine-American theoretical physicist and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Natural Sciences.

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