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Ep 63: "The Fabric of Reality" episode 1

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The Importance of Explanation in Physics

There is a certain kind of theoretical physicist who thinks that explanation is overrated. This is the error of instrumentalism, that all you want out of a theory is to be able to predict the outcome of experiments. In geology, we're interested in understanding unifying things like volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. We want to understand, but it is just in certain rarefied areas of theoretical physics that apparently the rules need to change because some people are uncomfortable with literal explanations or simply lack an explanation.

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