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The Known, The Strange And The New | John Ellis, Robert Rowland-Smith, Janne Teller

2017/2/7
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From Aristotle to Einstein humans have tried to make sense of the world. Yet despite huge advances a final explanation looks ever distant. What makes our lives and the world so puzzling and inexplicable? Is it the limitation of the human brain or is language not able to describe reality? Or is it too soon to give up on finding light in the darkness?

Eminent CERN physicist John Ellis joins philosopher Robert Rowland-Smith and existential novelist of* Why?* Janne Tellar to confront the strangeness of reality.

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