
Lee Smolin - Think About Nature
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The main question I'm asking myself is how to make a theory of the universe as a whole system. The metaphor here which comes from atomism, it comes from democracy and the cresis, is that physics is nothing but atoms moving in a void. These two things are very related since mathematical description is supposed to be outside of time. It's crazy the kind of ideas that we find ourselves thinking about," he says.
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