PBS Spacetime Presents: “Theory of Everything” Livestream Max Tegmark, James Beacham, Stephon Alexander (#061)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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The Importance of Information Theory in Science
Newton's gravity was enormous progress, but it didn't describe things perfectly. We become sufficiently humble in physics now anyway to acknowledge that probably everything of single theory we teach in our university courses is just the approximation for something else. So I actually think this information theory way of looking at it is more true to the spirit of what we actually do as scientists.
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