People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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.
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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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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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Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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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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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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Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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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 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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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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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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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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As 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?
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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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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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