‘There’s a dream that underlying the physical universe is some beautiful mathematical structure, and that the job of physics is to discover that,’ Smolin told me later. ‘The dream is in bad shape,’ he added. ‘And it’s a dream that most of us are like recovering alcoholics from.’ Lisi’s talk, he said, ‘was like being offered a drink.’
“Surfing the Universe” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells: The New Yorker (criminally, unavailable online)
‘There’s a dream that underlying the physical universe is some beautiful mathematical structure, and that the job of physics is to discover that,’ Smolin told me later. ‘The dream is in bad shape,’ he added. ‘And it’s a dream that most of us are like recovering alcoholics from.’ Lisi’s talk, he said, ‘was like being offered a drink.’
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