Right now, culturally, we're seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right? The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper. — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!" But as I've gotten older, and I look at the world, I think there's a lot of ways in which that kind of building up from the smallest building blocks doesn't actually account for the world.… — Adam Frank Copy Share
The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends… — Adam Frank Copy Share
“Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe. It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole. It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets… — Adam Frank Copy Share
People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think, are more… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally. — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Right now, culturally, we're seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right? The number of people who consider themselves… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they're not necessarily going to anybody's church. It's not like the world is becoming hardcore,… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
There's not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
