Queens’ College SCR Talk
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities Laplace (1814) pg 3
If we do discover a theory of everything … it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason-for then we would truly know the mind of God
Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time 1988
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Philosophical Essay on Probabilities Laplace (1814) pg 5
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= available energy + temperature \(\times\) entropy |
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bits/min | billions | 2,000 |
billion calculations/s |
~100 | a billion |
embodiment | 20 minutes | 5 billion years |
One thing is I can live with is doubt, and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live with not knowing than to have an answer that might be wrong.
Richard P. Feynmann in the The Pleasure of Finding Things Out 1981.