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?
ADAM FRANK
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
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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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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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It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.
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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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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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Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
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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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The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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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 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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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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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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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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