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New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.

Adam Frank

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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Block Enraptured Kid Physicist Physics Thinking Young
It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole.
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Act Dialogue End Imagine Inquiry Matter Most Sacred
I’m found of what’s called emergence – as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution – there’s things that you just aren’t able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.
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Ato Complex Emergence Found Law Met Understanding Universe
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve also become sensitive to the ways – to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?
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Amenable Explanation Sensitive Smaller Way
The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that’s what Scott and the writers did – they weren’t trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas
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Beat Country Idea Service Stories Story Trying Writer
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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Approach Complexity Fundamental New Physics REquired Science Whole
It’s not like the world is becoming hardcore, Richard Dawkins-atheist, but people are looking to sort of synthesize science – people love science, especially the millennials.
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Atheist Become Especially. Millennials.Hardcore Looking People Science Synthesize World
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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ADepend Fleshing Idea Share Story Want
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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More Movement Part Possibilities Possible Something
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.
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Account Building Gotten Kind Look Older Smallest Think Way World
Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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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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Consider Dropping Number People Religious Service Themselves
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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Calling Deeper Love Offer People Science Sense Themselves
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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Evidence Explain Multiverse Need Number Order Shread Single Universe
Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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Claim Continue Dialogue Final Focus Perhaps Rather Shining Theories

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