Universality: why “same law across stocks” is shocking

1:38:22>> Okay, which means that no matter no matter what stock market you're looking at, >> it's the same trend. >> I don't like that. It's really weird, right? And whenever physicists look at something like this, it reminds them of something called universality. Okay? Universality means there's some weird underlying physics that's happening. >> Yes. >> That is invariant of the thing that is involved in the data collection. Here's what I mean. Like in universality, what we what we a lot of times think about is um phase transitions. So if you if you think about gases or or any substance that's going from liquid to to gas and

1:39:04it's it's at something called the critical point which is where the liquid and the gas phase are like sort of same same >> right