On the quest for the theory of everything | Sabine Hossenfelder, Eric Weinstein, Brian Greene...
Sabine Hossenfelder, Eric Weinstein, Brian Greene and Michael Shermer discuss whether it is possible to find a theory that explains it all.
00:00 Introduction
03:00 Brian Greene
06:20 Sabine Hossenfelder
08:40 Eric Weinstein
09:00 Michael Shermer
12:05 Would such a theory answer all our fundamental questions about the universe?
26:16 Why are we fixated on searching for a theory of everything?
36:00 Where will this theory come from?
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Philosophy has often been seen as a hunt for a theory of everything, a single grand narrative that explains it all. In recent times science has had its own supporters for a theory of everything. Yet no theory of everything in philosophy or science has been forthcoming. And is it even possible? It would after all, have to include itself. Can we conceive of a universe that also includes its causes and laws? Ca