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19 - Why Does Science Work?

Why This Universe?

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The Anti-Realist Camp and Progress

Dan Hooper is a theoretical physicist at Fermilab and the University of Chicago. He says better theories are getting us closer to an understanding of what the world really is, even if there is a limit to how good that can get. Dan: "I don't have my mind made up on this issue at all" The one thing I'm really sure about is that science works at doing the thing it does. So let's keep doing it.

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