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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 Frank

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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The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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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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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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Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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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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Atheist Consider Millennial Necessarily Particular People Spiritual
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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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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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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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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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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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 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
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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New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
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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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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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