Emily Adlam
speaker
1,263 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 20 Jul
Emily Adlam’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
You just pick up by being in the field.
You
be a bottom bottom level just because it seems just wildly inefficient to have an incredible you know, have you know infinite la series of layers going all the way down and it I mean
just on the sort of uh principle that we should, you know, postulate we shouldn't postulate more than we need to explain what's going on.
It seems to me hard to believe that we c it could really be necessary to postulate this infinite layer of things to to explain what's going on.
So that's I guess that's that's in some ways just an aesthetic reference rather than a real argument.
Uh but it just sort of seems seems sort of like a bit excessive to postulate all of this stuff, uh, if if it could be done with less.
That's why we do this, right?
That's why we're in this field.
It's very exciting.
Yeah.
It's fascinating.
Well, I mean I I don't particularly have a problem with the in in the regress into the past or the future.
I think we have
reasonably compelling cosmological evidence that the past is not infinite and I believe the cosmologists when they tell me that that's what the evidence suggests.
But I I don't think I would I would wouldn't have like a philosophical objection to time going on infinitely into the past.
Uh indeed I think you know, I think if you are the the kind of person who has a model of the universe where you put in an initial state and it evolves forward in time, uh, then you are, I think, in some sense committed to there being a beginning of time where the initial state
can be put in to be evolved forwards.
I think because I don't have that kind of view of time, I'm perhaps more relaxed about that possibility than perhaps others might be.
Yep.
Showing 641–660 of 1,263 · page 33 of 64
← Previous
Next →