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Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strang...

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

From the multiverse to time travel to bad studies and internet “experts,” and then all the way to metaphysics and belief, Sean Carroll explains why modern life makes everyone sound so sure about things they barely understand.

-Moynihan is genuinely unnerved by space

-a theoretical physicist’s favorite music is prog rock, which seems about right

-what a physicist reads…

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