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Ep 63: "The Fabric of Reality" episode 1

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The Theory of Everything

"I wanted to be a more broad than that. I wanted to have a broad understanding of everything," says David Wheeler, author of the new book "The Fabric of reality" The idea that one person might understand everything that is understood may still seem fantastic, but it is distinctly less fantastic than the idea that one people could memorize every known fact. For example, no one could possibly memorize all known observational data on even so narrower subject as the motion of the planets. But many astronomers understand those motions to the full extent that they are understood. One comparatively simple and comprehensible theory can cover an infinity of digestible facts. Our best theory of planetary motions is Einstein's general theory of

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