Why the universe seems so strange | Richard Dawkins

http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe. TEDTalks...

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My title: "Queerer than we can suppose: the strangeness of science.""Queerer than we can suppose" comes from J.B.S. Haldane, the famous biologist,who said, "Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queererthan we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earththan are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy."Richard Feynman compared the accuracy of quantum theories --experimental predictions --to specifying the width of North America to within one hair's breadth of accuracy.This means that quantum theory has got to be, in some sense, true.Yet the assumptions that quantum theory needs to makein order to deliver those predictions are so mys...