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The Fabric of Reality
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How can I apply this idea: Science is fundamentally about explanation, not prediction; understanding grows deeper and more unified over time, and a real Theory of Everything must weave together quantum physics, epistemology, computation, and evolution, not just the physicists' narrow reductive unification of forces and particles?
How can I apply this idea: A careful chain of reasoning about ordinary shadow patterns, followed all the way down to single photons, rules out the idea that the visible universe is all there is: something we cannot see must be interfering with the light we do see, and that something behaves exactly like more photons, travelling through other openings, in other universes?
How can I apply this idea: Scientific knowledge does not grow by extrapolating or generalizing from observations, as inductivism claims; it grows by conjecturing bold explanations and then criticizing them, with observation used only to help decide between rival theories, not to generate them?
