People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
ADAM FRANKPeople have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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.
ADAM FRANKThe 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
ADAM FRANKAs 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 FRANKPeople love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what’s deeper.
ADAM FRANKMillennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
ADAM FRANKBut 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 FRANKRight now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
ADAM FRANKI’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 FRANKPeople have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
ADAM FRANKThere’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.
ADAM FRANKNew laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
ADAM FRANKThere’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.
ADAM FRANKIt 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.
ADAM FRANKThe more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
ADAM FRANKIt 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.
ADAM FRANK