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My guess is that some great simplifications of what I'm doing may actually have considerable resonance with what's been done in string theory, but that's a complicated math thing that I don't yet know how it's going to work out.
And so the fact that atoms, when you heat them up, only emit light at very specific colors, was one of the key drivers that led to the development of the quantum theory, the
theory
of the structure of atoms.
Now, that sounds esoteric, and indeed it was an esoteric pursuit, but the quantum
theory
quickly led to an understanding of the behaviors of electrons in materials like silicon, for example.
So without that curiosity-driven understanding of the structure of atoms, which led to this rather esoteric theory, quantum mechanics, then we wouldn't have transistors, we wouldn't have silicon chips, we wouldn't have pretty much the basis of our modern economy.
First, let me take a famous philosopher who wrote about those questions of justice and morality, give you a very short lecture on Aristotle of ancient Athens, Aristotle's
theory
of justice, and then have a discussion here to see whether Aristotle's ideas actually inform the way we think and argue about questions today.
And 9/11 has a conspiracy
theory.
This is a graph from a paper by Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini, who set out to test, at the beginning of this decade, what they called "deterrence theory."
And deterrence
theory
is a very simple
theory
of human behavior: If you want somebody to do less of something, add a punishment and they'll do less of it.
So our
theory
is that eventually we should be doing this with homes.
To the right, on top, you see a
theory
which is very, very fashionable.
Americans themselves are discovering that unlimited choice seems more attractive in
theory
than in practice.
And what I find deeply troubling in this book is that he seems to be arguing that if you want to be moral, if you want to have meaning in your life, you have to be an Intelligent Designer, you have to deny the
theory
of evolution by natural selection.
And only one contrary data point can blow your
theory
out of the water.
And this is where I think we can take a leaf out of systems theory, systems engineers, where they create feedback loops, put the right information at the right point of time.
It also happens to be male and, in
theory
immortal.
You know, you're sitting there, thinking a deep thought, the apple falls from the tree, and you have the
theory
of gravity.
And all of a sudden, the basic algorithm of natural selection kind of pops into his head, and he says, "Ah, at last, I had a
theory
with which to work."
And what Gruber found was that Darwin had the full
theory
of natural selection for months and months and months before he had his alleged epiphany reading Malthus in October of 1838.
According to a
theory
that dates back to the 19th century, such memories are stored as chains of synaptic connections inside your brain.
So one way of trying to test the
theory
is to look for such chains inside connectomes.
This means that quantum
theory
has got to be, in some sense, true.
Yet the assumptions that quantum
theory
needs to make in order to deliver those predictions are so mysterious that even Feynman himself was moved to remark, "If you think you understand quantum theory, you don't understand quantum theory."
David Deutsch, who's talking here, in "The Fabric of Reality," embraces the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, because the worst that you can say about it is that it's preposterously wasteful.
It's just elementary probability
theory.
I wonder whether we might help ourselves to understand, say, quantum theory, if we brought up children to play computer games beginning in early childhood, which had a make-believe world of balls going through two slits on a screen, a world in which the strange goings-on of quantum mechanics were enlarged by the computer's make-believe, so that they became familiar on the Middle-World scale of the stream.
Have you heard the
theory
of cloning redundancy, where a copy is poorer than the original?
The shark
theory
was advanced by Antonio while on the way so it not like they went in knowing what they were up against.
I can remember reading that Darwin had a pivotal experience in the Galapagos islands, seeing the vast range of animal life there, and intern, penned his
theory
of evolution.
I think there is nothing worse than when science gets turned into fable, and to an extent this film comes off as trying to debunk evolutionary
theory
by saying it came from a man who was emotionally unstable, which to me, is just plain gross.
This film proves a
theory
I have had for quite some time - in Australia, as long as a film deals with the right topic, it will be a success regardless of how terrible it is.
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