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kunalsen 's review for:
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
by Frank Wilczek
The book does an amazing job of telling a coherent and beautifully organized account of how modern physics understands the universe. While reading the book, at every stage, I was awed by the depth and beauty of what we have been able to achieve in a matter of a few hundred years of science. Born with extremely limited ability to sense the world around us, being stuck in one corner of an unremarkable galaxy, and gifted with a tiny mass of tissue we call the brain, we could create such a detailed and far-reaching view of the universal laws. What we created are not just fanciful stories but rigorous descriptions of the reality that are incredibly self-consistent and can withstand the onslaught of millions of experimental observations. Any person who ignores this feat of human intellect is missing out on one of the most profound things we can experience. Unfortunately, a huge fraction of humanity, perhaps most of us, chooses to remain poor and ignorant, and let this spectacle pass us by.
The only thing I had a hard time accepting is when the author tries to justify the coexistence of the spiritual view and the scientific view in terms of the principle of complementarity. I would not try to explain this view in the small space of this note but would love to have a conversation with someone who can defend this view.
The only thing I had a hard time accepting is when the author tries to justify the coexistence of the spiritual view and the scientific view in terms of the principle of complementarity. I would not try to explain this view in the small space of this note but would love to have a conversation with someone who can defend this view.