The Picture of the World That Comes From Science

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I do think that curiosity is a really good candidate for one. Humans are curious if we'regoin to try to engage in the dangerous game of coming up with fundamental human behaviors that are true across cultures. And also, more generally, and this is me stealing from my booka so ar, the ideas that we get from science filters out into the wider culture. Science is not a separate human activity from the rest of the human world. It is of a piece with art and politics and an and music and ah an, you know, the social sciences and the physical sciences and biological sciences, these all form a unified whole.

Is anything real? How many universes are there? Do we know what dark matter is all about? Is everything a simulation being run by a quantum computer through a wormhole from a future era? Is the answer to everything really ... 42? The affable and charming astrophysicist, author and philosopher of tiny particles Dr. Adam Becker pulls up a seat. And Alie has an existential crisis or two as they discuss the drama, intellectual battles and drunken debates of science past, and the hope that a new era of thinkers will figure out what exactly is going on in the world. Either way: cut bangs and text your crush.

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Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris

Music by Nick Thorburn