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Physics is Wrong w/ Dr. Wolfgang Smith | Episode #22
Off Limits w/ Bryan Callen
The Importance of Bifurcation in Physics
The basic principle which underlies our normal understanding of physics is what the British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead termed bifurcation. Descartes did he split all reality into two parts and everything that is not space occupying is called a rest corgitants a thing of the mind. But when you try to explain it to a physicist the physicists can't get it. It's an Orthodoxy that he thinks it's just the way things are. And in fact Whitehead himself lectured in England and America for decades trying to enable basically the physicists to understand this point until he finally gave up.
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