But as I’ve gotten older, and I look at the world, I think there’s a lot of ways in which that kind of building up from the smallest building blocks doesn’t actually account for the world.
ADAM FRANKMillennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
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People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what’s deeper.
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The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely – I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.
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Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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So they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
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Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, “Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!”
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The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.
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Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They’re always responding to what is happening culturally.
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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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There’s a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used.
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Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
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There’s not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an infinite number of parallel universes – that’s not a very good theory.
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