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 Critical Thinking in Physics
Stefan: I think it's a fascinating question. Did humans, did we invent mathematics or did we actually discover it? And that to me is again, it's sort of like very, you know, profound statement about compelling us to not just look at the underpinnings of the current understanding of nature but also ask questions about the universe itself. Max: We need to never really get stuck in this notion of beauty. It needs some kind of sort of embedding within the physics community to really understand what's going on.
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