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32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares

The Portal

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This week on the podcast, erick discusses Stephen wolfram's supposed announcement of a theory of everything two weeks ago. Erick: I don't think that this is what happened. Theoretical physics at its absolute highest levels has been in some strange state of advanced crankiness for decades. Can the mainstream truly be fringed? Wrong perhaps. But fringe, in some sense, means both distant from the center and wake. Quite simply, it is often no less wautologically at the center than the fringe.

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