Alan Lightman
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Podcast Appearances
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
I make all of my international calls on Skype.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
The thing that I listened to...
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
Well, I don't think that he's wrong, but I think that the problem is philosophically more disturbing than what he is confessing.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
We don't even know whether the other universes exist in the same space and time that we do.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
And there are other physicists who feel that these universes are, even in principle, never, never observable by us.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
That we will never be able to have any physical evidence of their existence.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
And that possibility is what I find disturbing.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
It may be that this is the way nature is.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
Well, I mean, it may be that we've done as much explaining as is possible.
Radiolab
The Nothing Behind Everything
In other words, we may have pushed the human mind as far as it can possibly go.