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010 - Donald Hoffman

Robert Edward Grant - Think Tank

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The Reductionist Approach to Physics

The spacetime, in my view, is a very shallow structure. It falls apart at 10 to the minus 33 centimeters and 10 to theminus 43 seconds. And after that, it has new operational meaning. That's entirely right. And that gets at the whole notion of reductionism, which has been a central and powerful approach that science and physics have taken.

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