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35 - The Chaos Underlying Everything (ft. David Grier)

Why This Universe?

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The History of Brownie Emotion

Einstein showed us how you can study a complicated system of particles statistically and still learn new things about how it'll behave. Out of the chaos of random motion, this predictable average behavior emerges. But to be sure that Einstein's predictions were actually true, some very careful experiments had to be done. He correctly explained Brownie emotion as being fluctuations in the unseen sea of atoms and molecules.

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