Glad you gave it a glowing reccomendation. Also glad you did it without spoilers. Kudos.

Shut the fuck up, idiot. I make two self-deprecating posts, and all you can do is lecture me, incorrectly, about economics.

Uhhhh....the fact that the value may have increased or decreased is not what makes the analogy apt. What makes the analogy apt is that the money paid does not go to the seller, it goes to the reseller. In this case, the reseller is the guy I bought the ticket from. That is where my money went, NOT to Snyder. Any…

You are completely correct. The usual pop-sci or journalistic explanation is confusing. The theory doesn’t say that we are “really” living in one or the other. It says that you can describe the physics using either one set of laws of physics on the boundary or a different set in the bulk, and that the two descriptions…

Nonsense - it’s not “universally” considered any such thing.

The craziest rumour I’ve seen is probably this: