When i look atastronomya in physics there's, maybe you don't wanto call it magical thinking, ut. It's very different than the this experimentally based approach that has been the dom successful aspect of these sciences over the last three years. I'm thinking about string theory, things that are highly speculative, not as as grounded in empirical sciences as other parts of our understanding of the cosmos. That's that's one thing i meant. The other thing i meant is that, you know, that first ten to the minus forty, third of creation that we can't see, and then the 10 to the minus 30 fifth, we're a little more normal. But i
Of all the scenarios that keep astrophysicist Sandra Faber up at night, it's not the Earth's increasing volcanism, the loss of photosynthesis, or even the impact of a massive asteroid. Rather, it's the collapse she's certain will result from the unbridled growth of the world's economies. Join Faber and EconTalk host Russ Roberts as they explore what the most inexorable law of physics has to do with economics and whether the world's growing economies pose a problem or provide the solution for the finiteness of planet Earth.