sometimes you hear people say that when we have “figured out everything about physics”, then we’d have figured out everything about the world, as the world is guided by physical principles.
The hubris of that statement could only come from a physicist! We would indeed have a foundation upon which to understand everything many things, if only we could keep up with issues like scale, events happening far away, and historical choices as you pointed it.
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sometimes you hear people say that when we have “figured out everything about physics”, then we’d have figured out everything about the world, as the world is guided by physical principles.
The hubris of that statement could only come from a physicist! We would indeed have a foundation upon which to understand
everythingmany things, if only we could keep up with issues like scale, events happening far away, and historical choices as you pointed it.