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Lisa Randall: belief

3 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

“You could try to jump in and say I have a theory that I think is so perfect that I can predict everything from it or at least predict some salient features from it.”

— Lisa Randall

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Speaker
Lisa Randall
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
3 Dec 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Declared that we’ve solved everything. This also a good place to… Maybe could you describe the difference between top-down and bottom-up approaches to theoretical physics that you talked about in the book? You could try to jump in and say I have a theory that I think is so perfect that I can predict everything from it or at least predict some salient features from it. Mm-hmm. That’s top-down.…

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