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Is the world simple or complicated?

Professor John D Barrow FRS · Gresham College

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About

Stop some particle physicists in the street and they will probably try to persuade you that the world is simple and governed by a single Theory of Everything. But stop a biologist, an economist or a social scientist, and they will tell you quite the opposite: the world is a higgledy-piggledy collection of complexity and chaos. So who is right: is the world really complicated or is it simple? And what does the answer tell us about the nature of art and science?

The talk

  1. Is the world simple or complicated? 2006-09-27 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor John D Barrow FRS
Year
2006
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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