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 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 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 FRANKSo they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
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 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 FRANKNew laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
ADAM FRANKLike most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, “Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!”
ADAM FRANKMillennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
ADAM FRANKThe more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
ADAM FRANKThe 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.
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 FRANKRather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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 FRANKScientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They’re always responding to what is happening culturally.
ADAM FRANKThe 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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