Since I just spent some of the morning not doing what I should have been doing, but reading about other things, in case you also want to do this, here are some options:<\/p>\n
Some theoretical physicists say their field needs more cold, hard evidence and worry about where the lack of proof leads. \u201cIt is easy to write theories,\u201d says Carlo Rovelli of the Center for Theoretical Physics in Luminy, France. Here, Rovelli is using the word colloquially, to talk about hypothetical explanations of how the universe, fundamentally, works. \u201cIt is hard to write theories that survive the proof of reality,\u201d he continues. \u201cFew survive. By means of this filter, we have been able to develop modern science, a technological society, to cure illness, to feed billions. All this works thanks to a simple idea: Do not trust your fancies. Keep only the ideas that can be tested. If we stop doing so, we go back to the style of thinking of the Middle Ages.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n
- John Horgan has a wonderful, very long, interview with Scott Aaronson<\/a>. Highly recommended as a way to avoid work and learn all sort of interesting things from and about Scott, whose blog you should be reading anyway. If you want to discuss this, you likely can do so with the man himself here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- If you just can’t get enough of the multiverse, there’s something else quite long available, a podcast of Sam Harris in conversation with Max Tegmark<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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