{"id":702,"date":"2016-06-24T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=702"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:38:50","slug":"appendix-z58-2006-cosmologist-leonard-susskind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z58: 2006: Cosmologist Leonard Susskind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"min-height: 700px\">\n<div class=\"pc pce3 w0 h0\">\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y42b ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">APPENDIX Z58:<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y42c ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y42d ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">2006: Cosmologist Leonar<span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>d\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y8de ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Susskind<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 xc h8b yaa8 ff1c fs1f fc0 sc0 ls33 ws6a\">*<span class=\"_ _6\"><\/span>**<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 ya21 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">\u201cFor my own tastes, elegance and simplicity can\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 ya22 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">sometimes be found in principles that don\u2019t at all<br \/>\n                lend\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 ya23 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">themselves to equations. I know of no equations<br \/>\n                that\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yaa9 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">are mor<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>e elegant than the<br \/>\n                two principles that underpin\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yaaa ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Darwin\u2019<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>s theory: random<br \/>\n                mutation and competition. This\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yaab ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">book is about an organizing principle that is also<br \/>\n                powerful\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yab5 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">and simple\u2026.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yab6 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">And what about the biggest questions of all: who<br \/>\n                or\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yab7 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">what made the universe and for what reason? Is<br \/>\n                ther<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>e a\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yab8 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">purpose to it all? I don\u2019t pr<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>etend to know the answers\u2026\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yab9 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">\u2026The ultimate existential question, \u2018Why is there\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yaba ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Something rather than Nothing?\u2019 has no more or less<br \/>\n                of\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yabb ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">an answer than before anyone had ever hear<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>d of String\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 yabc ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Theory<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>.\u201d\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h66 yab4 ff1b fs1e fc0 sc0 ls30 ws67\">***<span class=\"ff19 fs27 ls10 ws2c\"> Leonar<span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>d <span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>Susskind, <span class=\"ff2c\">The <span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>Cosmic <span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>Landscape<span class=\"ff19\">. New <span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>Y<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>ork: <span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>Little, Br<span class=\"_ _1\"><\/span>own and <span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>Company<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>.<span class=\"_ _6\"><\/span> <span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6e yabd ff19 fs27 fc0 sc0 ls10 ws0\"> 2006. pp 379-380<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPENDIX Z58: 2006: Cosmologist Leonard Susskind *** \u201cFor my own tastes, elegance and simplicity can sometimes be found in principles that don\u2019t at all lend themselves to equations. I know of no equations that are more elegant than the two principles that underpin Darwin\u2019s theory: random mutation and competition. 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