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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Abstraction in Modern Times

"We're actually headed into a situation in which we've lost our fear of the early 20th century," he says. "The toys, the power became so overwhelming as to become existential in its scope" The Tata Institute for fundamental research is India's modern birthplace of quantum gravity and has led to 70 years of stagnation at the forefront of questioning the cosmos.

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