{"id":18304,"date":"2025-07-25T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=18304"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:05:46","slug":"we-the-observers-within-this-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=18304","title":{"rendered":"We, the observers within this universe : )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>There\u2019s stuff I believe we cannot know as observers within this universe, and yet it does not mean that science breaks down<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; [ <em>Thomas Hertog &#8211; Professor of Theoretical Physics at Belgium\u2019s University of Leuven &#8211; Quanta mag. July 24, 2025<\/em> ]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;no, he\u2019s not saying \u201cthere\u2019s a God, or something\u201d, he\u2019s just saying there\u2019s someone (or might be) outside our universe smarter than us : )<br \/>\n&#8230;it\u2019s almost funny, not because scientists are saying this, but because I was thinking the \u201csame\u201d for at least 30 years now : )<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;nobody knows what\u2019s \u201coutside\u201d, there\u2019s no way to be sure, we even don\u2019t know what\u2019s inside, we don\u2019t know all of our universe, I can think this, I can think that, who cares, I&#8217;m not a scientist, nobody cares what I think &#8211; but real scientists shouldn&#8217;t be saying this <em>(Professor Hertog said this just yesterday, July 24, 2025, on the Quanta&#8217;s Podcast, cohosted by Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz &#8211; Hertog had worked with Stephen Hawking for so many years, for the last 20 years, until his death)<\/em>, even if you&#8217;re avoiding the &#8220;anthropic principles&#8221; attitude, even if you know that science isn&#8217;t going to &#8220;break down&#8221;, it\u2019s 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&#8217;re giving to other &#8220;theories&#8221; everything they need, the right fuel, the best fuel they ever could have, you almost can call it \u201cdivine fuel\u201d : )<br \/>\n<em>(S. Guraziu &#8211; Ars Poetica, July 25 2025)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arspo_quanta_quote_thomas_hertog_2025_opt.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arspo_quanta_quote_thomas_hertog_2025_opt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arspo_quanta_quote_thomas_hertog_2025_opt.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arspo_quanta_quote_thomas_hertog_2025_opt-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arspo_quanta_quote_thomas_hertog_2025_opt-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arspo_quanta_quote_thomas_hertog_2025_opt-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There\u2019s stuff I believe we cannot know as observers within this universe, and yet it does not mean that science breaks down&#8221; &#8211; [ Thomas Hertog &#8211; Professor of Theoretical Physics at Belgium\u2019s University of Leuven &#8211; Quanta mag. 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