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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Bifurcation Between Physics and Philosophy?
I think what we hope for is that there'll be a theory which applies to the early universe, but also has consequences which we can test in our present day universe like discovering my new treatise exists or things like that. So we're dancing between physics and philosophy a little bit, but what do you think happened before the Big Bang? But I would put all these things we've just mentioned in the category of speculative science. And I don't see a bifurcation between that and philosophy. There may be some things which are beyond us and certainly as we implied, there are things that we don't yet understand at all.
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