
Could a grand unified theory of physics be impossible?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is There a Reductionism?
Reductionism is a methodology like, hey, you want to understand something? Look at its component parts. That's what a particle physicist would do, for example. But does that reject like reductionism? Does that say that those laws, F equals M.A., for example, doesn't arise somehow from like the towing and frowing of the basic bits that they emerge at their own level? Or are you suggesting that there just are naturally these different scales, which the universe coalesces into simplicity? Right. So I think reduction is really helpful for understanding how the different kind of theories and laws that we have all fit together. You can show why you thought there were Newtonian
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