
525. Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast
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The Multiverse or the Simulation Hypothesis?
A lot of scientists have been overly enthusiastic about talking about ideas like the multi verse or the simulation hypothesis. But you feel that they're not fully awareof what they're doing, and there's a lack of philosophical underpinning to their theories. And i think it's a misunderstanding of how much mathematics can possibly do for us. So i don't want, i mean, there there are certainly some people who have been pushing this line a little bit too far, probably deliberately because it sells and so on. I think for most of them, i think they're geneinely confused.
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