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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 163
Physics is extremely good at describing simple systems with relatively few moving parts. Sadly, the world is not like that; many phenomena of interest are complex, with multiple interacting parts and interesting things happening at multiple scales of length and time. One area where the techniques of physics overlap…
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