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At the subatomic level, the world turned out to be very far from Newtonian, with uncertainty built into the very fabric of matter.
Matt Ridley • The Evolution of Everything
The first bottom-up attempt to untangle the riddle of design was to search for a profound mathematical truth at the kernel of existence. The second line of attack, multiverse cosmology, also relied on timeless metalaws, but augmented with the anthropic selection of a habitable island universe.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
I wondered if it was really physics per se that so inspired me, or simply the spirit that motivated physics—the courage that spurred some of history’s brightest minds to ask such brazen questions about our world. I wanted desperately to follow in their footsteps—to help reveal some unknown truth—but I was no longer certain what kind of truth it’d
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they stumbled upon a crucial detail—Indo-European
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Are these higher dimensions merely mathematical tools, or do they actually exist all around us, just outside our reach? In her recent book, Warped Passages, physicist Lisa Randall explains why a growing number of her colleagues are coming to believe that this may indeed be the case.7
Amy L. Lansky PhD • Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within
Max Tegmark, The Mathematical Universe, arXiv e-print, April 5, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646.
Peter Watts • Echopraxia (Firefall Book 2)
In Defense of Lord Kelvin, Michelson, and the Physics of Decimals
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