I made a video asking Julian Barbour why set theory and topos theory have "too little" ontology t…

I made a video asking Julian Barbour why set theory and topos theory have "too little" ontology to describe quantum gravity, why Riemannian geometry and gauge fields (fiber bundles) have too much and Zermelo's (of ZFC fame) beef with Boltzmann

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In the video, we go over: - Topos theory, set theory and Zermelo's beef with Boltzmann - Algebraic varieties and Leibniz's monads - Why physicists are wrong about the 2nd law of thermodynamics (because the universe is not a closed system) - The real goal…

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I made a video asking Julian Barbour why set theory and topos theory have "too little" ontology to describe quantum gravity, why Riemannian geometry and gauge fields (fiber bundles) have too much and Zermelo's (of ZFC fame) beef with Boltzmann