{"id":5496,"date":"2010-10-07T14:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2010-10-07T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:10:25","slug":"the-arrow-of-time-and-the-multiverse-on-philosophy-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/the-arrow-of-time-and-the-multiverse-on-philosophy-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arrow of Time and the Multiverse on Philosophy TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu\/faculty\/ccallender\/index.html\">Craig Callender<\/a> is a philosopher of science at UC San Diego, who has written a lot about the nature of time, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Introducing-Time-Graphic-Craig-Callender\/dp\/1848311206\/\">fun illustrated book<\/a>.  He&#8217;s more than a bit skeptical of the multiverse idea, and somewhat contrarian about the low-entropy nature of the early universe: he thinks it&#8217;s just a fact we should observe and accept (&#8220;nomological&#8221;), rather than a feature that cries out for a better explanation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philostv.com\/craig-callender-and-sean-carroll\/\">Here<\/a> we&#8217;re having a chat on the recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philostv.com\/\">Philosophy TV<\/a>, sort of Bloggingheads for philosophers.  Craig&#8217;s head obviously looms much larger than mine, so I had to use my wiles to bob and weave, intellectually speaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15319491\">Callender and Carroll<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4161393\">Philosophy TV<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Callender is a philosopher of science at UC San Diego, who has written a lot about the nature of time, including a fun illustrated book. He&#8217;s more than a bit skeptical of the multiverse idea, and somewhat contrarian about the low-entropy nature of the early universe: he thinks it&#8217;s just a fact we should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}