Hacking the Nature of Reality
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Hacking the Nature of Reality

B1IntermediateOctober 24, 202620 min
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If you won a $3,000 a month payday for life, what would you feel free to do? Maybe take a long weekend, every weekend? Or try a bunch of new hobbies? Would you feel free to upgrade and listen ad-free?

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Raffle number RAF 1573916. Please play responsibly. In particle physics, we try to understand reality by looking for smaller and smaller building blocks. But what if that has been the wrong philosophy all along?

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