Sabine Hossenfelder - Existential Physics
From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series
“Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to
life’s biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the
human condition
Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the
universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion
that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is
ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation.
On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult
to rule out entirely.
According to Sabine Hossenfelder, it is not a coincidence
that quantum entanglement and vacuum energy have become the go-to explanations
of alternative healers, or that people believe their deceased grandmother is
still alive because of quantum mechanics. Science and religion have the same
roots, and they still tackle some of the same questions: Where do we come from?
Where do we go to? How much can we know? The area of science that is closest to
answering these questions is physics. Over the last century, physicists have
learned a lot about which spiritual ideas are still compatible with the laws of
nature. Not always, though, have they stayed on the scientific side of the
debate.
