“When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.” AliveCapable Author:Danielle Trussoni
“Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.” WritingMy FriendsEntertaining Author:Kesha
“There's not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an infinite number of parallel universes - that's not a very good theory.” IfsNeedsOrderUniverseNumbersTheoryEvidenceInfiniteVery GoodParallelsMultiverseParallel Universe Author:Adam Frank
“People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think, are more indicative of problems with some things going on at the frontier of physics than ideas that are gonna last.” PeopleThinkingLongHas BeensIdeasProblemLastsTalkingLong TimePhilosophicalCurrentsPhysicsFrontiersIncarnationMultiverse Author:Adam Frank
“Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!" But as I've gotten older, and I look at the world, I think there's a lot of ways in which that kind of building up from the smallest building blocks doesn't actually account for the world. As I've gotten older, I've also become sensitive to the ways - to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksKindKidsYoungBuildingTheoryAccountsPhysicsBlockSensitiveExplanationAtomsSmallestPhysicistBuilding UpBuilding BlocksAmenable Author:Adam Frank
“I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.” IfsAbleLawUniverseFoundUnderstandingEvolutionComplexesAtomsEmergence Author:Adam Frank
“New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are. There's a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used. We're gonna have to think about the world in a different way if we want to address complex systems.” IfsThinkingWorldWayWantKindDifferentWholeMovingLawUsedUniversePossibilityApproachFundamentalsComplexesBottomPhysicsEvolveDifferent WaysComplexityAddressesComplex SystemsDifferent ApproachMoving Parts Author:Adam Frank
“The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.” WayWantTryingIdeasStoriesWantedUsedDependsBeats Author:Adam Frank
“Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.” ArtistHappeningsScientistCome UpRespondingMilieu Author:Adam Frank
“Right now, culturally, we're seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right? The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.” PeopleWorldIdeasSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousInterestingNumbersSeeingEvolutionRight NowDroppingReally Interesting Author:Adam Frank