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Could a grand unified theory of physics be impossible?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Demotion in Fundamental Physics?

Recent ideas about how space itself and maybe even time are not fundamental to the universe. This is interesting sort of second-class nature to things that emerge. There's a kind of tendency sometimes in philosophy to really only focus on the fundamental. And yeah, I think it's right to think of these non-fundamental things as not kind of second class in that way.

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