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An Examination of Modern Physics: Why We're Not "Masters of the Universe"

Mike Dane via YouTube

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This 19-minute video explores the fundamental limitations of modern physics, challenging the notion that scientists have mastered the universe. Dive into the major unsolved mysteries including the dark universe problem (with 95% of the universe composed of unknown dark matter and dark energy), the incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics, and the measurement problem in quantum physics. Learn about the initial conditions problem that physics cannot explain, computational limitations that make certain problems unsolvable, the infinite precision problem, and observational horizons that restrict our understanding. Discover why even with remarkable achievements like detecting the Higgs boson and gravitational waves, physics remains a work in progress, with the greatest physicists acknowledging how much remains unknown about our complex universe.

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An Examination of Modern Physics

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Mike Dane

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