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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 Theory of the Big Bang

The laws of motion for any physical system make only conditional predictions and are therefore compatible with many possible histories. Almost everything that we see happening around us from the distribution of stars and galaxies in the sky to the appearance of bronze statues on planet Earth is a consequence of those variations. If our reductionist description is to cover anything more than the grossest features of the observed universe we need a theory specifying those all important initial deviations from uniformity.

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