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About this episode

"The Theory of Everything is a term for the ultimate theory of the universe—a set of equations capable of describing all phenomena that have been observed, or that will ever be observed. It is the modern incarnation of the reductionist ideal of the ancient Greeks, an approach to the natural world that has been fabulously successful in bettering the lot of mankind and continues in many people's minds to be the central paradigm of physics." (The Theory of Everything, David Pines & Robert Laughlin).The emergent physical phenomena regulated by higher organizing principles have a property, namely their insensitivity to microscopics, that is directly relevant to the broad question of what is knowable in the deepest sense of the term. ;It has to do with a new way of looking at the interconnectivity between the particles and elements that form our universe. I'd like to talk to you about that.

• Release Date

  Oct 18, 2010

• Runtime

  01:25