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.
ADAM FRANKIt’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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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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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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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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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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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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The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Millennials, 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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