“There’s stuff I believe we cannot know as observers within this universe, and yet it does not mean that science breaks down” – [ Thomas Hertog – Professor of Theoretical Physics at Belgium’s University of Leuven – Quanta mag. July 24, 2025 ]
…no, he’s not saying “there’s a God, or something”, he’s just saying there’s someone (or might be) outside our universe smarter than us : )
…it’s almost funny, not because scientists are saying this, but because I was thinking the “same” for at least 30 years now : )
…nobody knows what’s “outside”, there’s no way to be sure, we even don’t know what’s inside, we don’t know all of our universe, I can think this, I can think that, who cares, I’m not a scientist, nobody cares what I think – but real scientists shouldn’t be saying this (Professor Hertog said this just yesterday, July 24, 2025, on the Quanta’s Podcast, cohosted by Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz – Hertog had worked with Stephen Hawking for so many years, for the last 20 years, until his death), even if you’re avoiding the “anthropic principles” attitude, even if you know that science isn’t going to “break down”, it’s the same as directly admitting the slowing down of disruptive science, experts say at a structural level science becomes more complex as it matures, in some sense it has to slow down, but by saying something like THIS you’re giving to other “theories” everything they need, the right fuel, the best fuel they ever could have, you almost can call it “divine fuel” : )
(S. Guraziu – Ars Poetica, July 25 2025)
