The Crisis In Physics: Are We Missing 17 Layers of Reality?
PBS Space Time · Season 2025 · Episode 13
Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s reductionism in a nutshell, and digging our way to the smallest layer has been one of the primary goals of physics for ever. But what if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
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Season
2025
Episode
13
Air Date
12/Jun/2025
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
21 min
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Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s reductionism in a nutshell, and digging our way to the smallest layer has been one of the primary goals of physics for ever. But what if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
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