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Ep 77: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 1 "The Theory of Everything" Part 3

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The Limits of Relativity

Most such calculations are intractable yes intractable to put it mildly back to the book and he writes I have said that we infer the existence of lumpiness in the initial conditions from observations of lumpiness today but that is exceptional. Most of our knowledge of supplementary data of what specifically happens is in the form of high-level theories about emergent phenomena. We may never know what specifically this restriction implies about the detailed structure of the Big Bang but we can draw conclusions from it directly. The earliest accurate estimate of the age of the earth was made on the basis of the biological theory of evolution contradicting the best physics of the day only a reductionist prejudice could make us feel that this

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