# Is the world simple or complicated?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor John D Barrow FRS
- Year: 2006
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/world-simple-or-complicated)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?

## Lectures

1. [Is the world simple or complicated?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/world-simple-or-complicated/6a7b7bbef431) (YouTube)