“Is it possible to take the principles of what is possible and impossible that already exist in physics, and formulate the whole of physics in terms of these statements in a way that gives us a new theory of computation?”

Chiara Marletto is a physicist at Oxford University, and the author of the book “The Science of Can and Can’t”.

This is a new and different approach to physics where the idea is that the physics most of us are familiar with is mirrored in a way that is very limited. 

Full transcript, list of resources, and art piece: Chiara Marletto | The Science of Can & Can’t

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