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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.

Adam Frank

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Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
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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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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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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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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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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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