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But what physicists do so well, and most of us do so poorly, is that they carefully delimit what Newtonian and Einsteinian physics are able to explain. They know down to many decimal places where those maps are useful guides to reality, and where they aren’t. And when they hit uncharted territory, like quantum mechanics, they explore it carefully i
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Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
youtube.comEverything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. This
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David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity – Explanations that Transform the World

David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
There was a harmonious reality underlying the laws of the universe, Einstein felt, and the goal of science was to discover it.