The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
ADAM FRANKThe more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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 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 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 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 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 have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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 FRANKNew laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
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 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 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 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 FRANKRather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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 FRANKMillennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
ADAM FRANK